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Theater: A.R. Gurney ill-serves John Cheever...
...movies into what deserves to be a long and unfettered career, Stillman has fashioned a subspecies of civilized male that is as well defined as a Fitzgerald beau or a Cheever suburbanite. They are the young, Reagan-bred Republicans who astounded their parents by turning out exactly like them, but with a coating of Lettermanesque irony. They see The Graduate from the viewpoint of the spurned, stuffy groom. They believe that being a salesman is "not just a job but a culture." They read the Bible while dancing alone to Glenn Miller's PEnnsylvania 6-5000. And when they encounter...
While the problems of the Hoods are unrelenting, Moody recounts them with a detachment that sets the novel apart from those darker chronicles of New England suburban misery, the works of John Cheever and Richard Yates. Moody is a stylishly clever writer, but by making one too many references to Match Game and eight-track tapes, he undercuts the struggle and pathos of his characters. Nevertheless, we sense that somewhere today in New York or Los Angeles or Washington, mid-thirtyish Paul and Wendy are paying big therapy bills...
...Cheever also acknowledges that "the presentprogram is much too complicated and the newsystems is worthy trying...
...Cheever, to the contrary, insists that "underthe new program, taxpayers will pay more money...