Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weatherman action, then. was a very serious escalation in the tactics of the anti-war movement. Essentially, it was an act of war-which is a very good term. since Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn is fond of saying the Weathermen are "the new Red Army fighting behind enemy lines...
...violence of Chicago was an act of war then it has to be judged like a military encounter. If it is judged that way, the Weathermen lost. Three-quarters of them were taken prisoner and their casualties were easily double that of the other side...
...quite an act of war, because the battles were "events," which were publicized long before they happened...
Craig Newenhuyse plays the role quite well. Although he is hampered by some bad acting techniques (an awkward physical presence), he effectively conveys the role's pessimism. He is particularly fine in the first act, where Vidal has lent him a great deal of wit and polish. He was sensitively aware of the character's dynamics, never boring, but not altogether inspiring...
ONLY two elements of this Take Me Along sabotage what would have been a complete victory for the director-the choreography and the orchestra. The musical has two production numbers-a picnic celebration in Act One and a liquor-induced dream sequence in Act Two. Both worked in the original production; neither do in this one. The musical staging devised by Robert Harlow and Joanne Ruskin is, in the first case, routine, and, in the second, self-indulgent...