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Litman brings energy, exuberance, and a somewhat different interpretation to the part. He portrays Nick as slightly more wise-ass and more adult, though he too suffers from a too rapid and mumbled delivery at the play's outset. He improves quickly and is especially good at reacting to Miller adding more grimaces and physical schtick to the role...
While the stereotypes are hilarious and wonderful. "Lost Cookies" turns into something more than a Cantabrigian "Welcome Back Kotter." The dialogue is daring--Maggie calls Sal "numbnuts," and Sal replies, "You're a tease, Miss Tight Ass"--and it never seems forced or garish...
...least, as December rolls in and the first snow lies mushy on the ground, and you've already slipped on a patch of ice and landed on your ass, cursing because there's no escaping the fact that Cambridge Winter is here and because, baby, it's cold outside--I say, at the very least--you can comfort yourself with a wide selection of excellent December folk music around Cambridge...
...finished his state business before signing out. More important, he insists Vellucci let them know he would be working the entire day and signed out only after he realized the reporters might be checking on him. "It could be that later he decided, 'Well, I'd better cover my ass,' so he signed out--but it seemed to us if he was signed out beforehand, he would have said so at the time," Kindleberger says...
...that Vellucci was frequently absent from the office does not prove much, for without access to the time sheets it is almost impossible to know whether any of the absences were authorized. And if, as Kindleberger implies, Vellucci could alter the time sheets after the fact, to "cover his ass," it may never be possible to answer the question...