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...Without a Country. A repeat of Cliff Robertson's great portrayal of Philip Nolan, the exiled co-conspirator of Aaron Burr. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...
Approximately 80 people rallied last night at Burr Hall to protest the 14 year incarceration of Ukrainian dissident Valentyn Moroz on the 148th day of his voluntary hunger strike in Vladimir Prison outside Moscow...
MERT AND PHIL by ANNE BURR...
...husband Phil is a gregarious fuel-truck driver of excessive bonhomie who reeks of gasoline fumes. He cannot cope with his wife's mastectomy. He masturbates and cheats on the side. Just to make it doubly clear that sex is all that truly bound this couple together, Playwright Burr has another couple visit Mert and Phil, and this pair indulges in the most rabid preliminaries to cunnilingus seen on the New York stage since the late...
Last year's bestselling Burr is an excel lent example of the author's skill at packaging a bit of class in a good deal of excelsior. For Myron, he tricks out his peeves and hostilities with the malicious energy that has made him the best-if not the most original-of our hard-core satirists. Myra/Myron is the perfect mate for Vidal's cold-blooded gifts. If the caricatures, derision and raillery sometimes outpace the action-or the point -it is because even Vidal is not immune to the satirist's most common affliction...