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Originally written for three men, this adaptation for women depicts the lives of two sisters and an interloping bum who disrupts their mundane lives and relationships to each other. Although each actress delves into her character and moulds a clearly defined personality filled with idiosyncracies, the script does not enable them to develop fully into a person with whom the audience can identify. Not only are the characters confined physically in the one room where the play takes place, but they are also limited mentally by the sketchy world Pinter creates for them...
...Caretaker's plot centers around a bum named May Davies (Faith Justice) who is taken in by one of the sisters. Aston (Sandra Shipley) who collects junk and seems slightly moronic. The other sister, Mick (Pamela Dritt Knickrehm) is a highly volatile punkish woman who is dissatisfied with her sister's ineffectuality in making only one of their large house habitable. The bum works her way into the sisters' lives and gradually becomes more selfish and demanding of the sisters as time passes. Since nothing really happens in the women's lives even after the bum moves in, the play...
Like most political memoirs, Power and Principle is largely an exercise in self-justification. Brzezinski tries hard to guide future historians in their judgments. His thesis is that the Administration he served got a bum rap from the press and from the voters. Always vigorously, sometimes ingeniously, and with lengthy references to a journal he kept with this book in mind, he seeks to prove some claims and disprove some charges. The result, in both cases, is often the opposite of what he intends...
Once challenged, and once convinced, this nation has been able to do just about anything it has wanted to do. It may decide, after further consideration, that Ronald Reagan has come up with a bum idea. But it should not rebuff his vision out of timidity...
...drilling rights auction brought in more than $1.28 million in immediate cash payments and could bring a good bit more in future royalty payments, said the chairman of A&M's Board of Regents, H.R. "Bum" Bright...