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...smaller-scale direction, especially blocking, is excellent. Smooth timing and imaginative use of props stretch the humor--this particular facet of Weller's play becomes the mainstay of the Dunster production. David Alpert gives a skillful and sophisticated performance as the roguish Mike who masterminds the comic scenes. His sidekick, played by Andy Berger, is a lackluster second fiddle. Andrea Gordon as Ruth and Nikki Mintz as Kathy speak their lines self-consciously, sounding unnatural saying "fuck" and "shit"; it's as though the Jackson twins have bedded down with the entire high school football team...
...Jane Alpert has dropped bombing and is into women's lib [Jan. 27]. What greater "recommendation" could we ask for the women's liberation movement and the Equal Rights Amendment? Couldn't somebody have put a gag in her mouth, at least until the ERA is passed...
...Minor Figure. The last two years of her odyssey brought Alpert some stability and peace. Tired of hearing anti-Semitic remarks while using such false names as Blake and Davis, she listed her name as "Carla Weinstein" with a Denver employment agency, and was referred to an Orthodox Jewish girls' school run by two rabbis. There she did office work, counseled the girls and found the rabbis intelligent and kind...
...Alpert says she is through with leftist politics, because the ideas of the left are "not particularly relevant to what's going on today" and are "basically destructive to women." Though she is a minor figure in the rise and fall of the New Left, her career is a paradigm of the retreat from politics to more personal concerns. Young white activists of the '60s were chiefly concerned about injustices done to others. For Alpert, selflessness must go. As a radical feminist of the '70s, she seeks "an identity not with other people's oppression...
...Patricia Swinton, indicted with Alpert, is still a fugitive, as are Weatherpeople Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson, Bernardine Dohrn and Kathy Boudin...