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Portraits of Ho Chi Minh abound, as do Viet Cong flags. The ten rules of behavior for soldiers (be polite to people, respect their property, among others) are posted everywhere. Moviehouses show revolutionary films exclusively. Schoolteachers are being "re-educated" to teach the new Marxist credo. ARVN officers who did not manage to escape are being held in custody, but enlisted men so far have only to carry an identity card issued by the P.R.G...
Thus the reflections abound and multiply. Oki sees Otoko in Keiko; Keiko sees a youthful Oki in Taichiro. And Otoko finally loses her lover to Oki and Taichiro just as Oki's wife once lost...
Opportunities for extracurricular involvement in the performing arts do abound at Harvard, and a compromise solution for the arts problem might lead to a program similar to the Athletics Department's: completely separate from the academic departments, it supports a wide range of extracurricular activities...
Predictably, the sword sunders Charlie's pacifist haven. His youngest son is kidnaped by the Yankees; his eldest is murdered by the Confederates under the misconception that he is a Union soldier. Family scenes bordering on the mawkish abound, culminating in a sob-happy ending. Cullum holds the rambling show together with a strong stage presence and a robust baritone, but his general manner is a trifle too Broadway-slick for a hornyhanded farmer. Producers invariably say of a musical like this that it will find its audience, and much of Shenandoah is so amiably wholesome that one wishes...
Symbols of this show's problems abound. It was mounted by a museum committed to the plastic arts of painting and sculpture and directed by, of all people, that museum's former curator of painting. Not too surprisingly, the show basically tries to prove that photography is nothing more than "painting with light...