Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon wears on, the clan bitches it up, a diatribe here, a confessional secret there, a bilious distillation from atrabilious people. Andrea hates Annie because Daddy loved her more. Five marriages have not appeased her sense of loss. Out of vengeance or whim she has carried on an affair with Annie's fiance. Callously neglected by her late husband, Ruth fervently argues that loyalty and fidelity are above price. Only Aunt Helen has shared untarnished love in a lesbian idyl with an aviatrix now long dead. It is an odd angle of vision that per mits Playwright Babe...
...Unfortunately, she fails to do much more justice to her character, even if one takes into account the script's peculiar lack of lines for Nicole. The lines Claudy has she delivers flatly, with hardly a trace of the storm that must brew inside a woman having a passionate affair with her younger brother...
...strongest part of the show. If the orchestra were better prepared and the director had replaced Strauss's Vienna coherently, Lowell's Fledermaus could please everyone. As it stands, the program lists the show's time-setting as "uncertain"--a word you might better apply to the whole affair...
Writer Michael Temblay centers this play around a young French Canadian, Serge, and his long-standing incestuous love affair with sister Nicole. The real issues, though, are more commonplace: the emotional deadness of middle class life, the desparation of lonely housewives, the struggle to communicate across generations. Though they might sound trite, Tremblay energizes his themes with strong emotions and piercing dialogue...
...Supreme Court decision on school segregation, the legal system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down to the decibel level of the lunches...