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There are dragon ladies breathing fire on the stage of Broadway's Martin Beck Theater. Paul Zindel has conceived of a raw, strident all-woman power struggle for control of a regional theater called the "Alamo" in Texas City, Texas. The bitchy confrontations in his play make the feline spats in Clare Boothe Luce's The Women sound like the popping of ladyfingers...
...riel, all hardware and hard knocks, with nary a thought for such behavioral patterns as the film's earlier sequences may have established for the participants. Not so in Man on the Roof, the Swedish-made policier based on one of the Martin Beck novels by Mãj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. One by one, the technological hopes for victory over the crazed killer are thwarted by his cunning and his quick reflexes. Even the usually infallible Beck is almost killed trying his hand against the killer. In the end, it is three quite...
...friends about the time he splashed around in the pool with the President. With four other couples, all old friends, the Fords spent their final weekend at snow-covered Camp David, where a log fire crackled in the huge stone fireplace and Navy stewards scurried around at their beck and call...
...West Church Noonday Series. Sarah Brink on the organ, the works of Beck and Frescobaldi, at 12:10 p.m. at 131 Cambridge St. in Boston. Free. Call 227-5088 for information...
...Anthony. Thomson's score is a bright crazy quilt of American folk tunes, gospel hymns, marches and sentimental ballads that evoke pungent memories of an earlier time. Stein's libretto is her customary trenchant blend of logic with nonsense, historical characters like Lillian Russell (sung by Karen Beck) with imaginary figures like the mobile angel (Ashley Putnam). Snippets of political speeches are intercut with Stein's excursions into absurdities. "I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking," Susan B. accuses. "Daniel Webster needs an artichoke," reports the angel, scooting by on her skates...