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...SMALL CAST WORKS as an ensemble--no one character stands apart from the rest in the quality of her performance. The three major roles are played by Sandy Dennis as Mona, Cher as Cissy, and Karen Black as Joann. These women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...Cher, as the never-aging sex-pot Cissy, becomes the perfect foil for the unstable Mona. Her character has had the same wonderful figure--boobs and all--for 20 years and she resounds with a sensuous good humor. In this difficult role, Cher doesn't allow her character to become a stereotypical, dizzy nymph. In fact, she uses her sensuality and dark good looks to present a raunchy woman who has more to offer than a mane of wavy black hair. Cher shows a new side of her abilities as an actress with the fluidity of her movements that reveal...
...Paris!" At the embassy dinner, the former California Governor told his French guests, "We know France has great appreciation for fine wines. That's why we decided to treat you to some California wine tonight." Mitterrand, carried away by all the camaraderie, addressed Reagan as "mon cher...
...that time, the intense, attractive scholar had fled the country. She left behind a series of frayed but unsevered connections: with Heidegger and with Germany. In Paris, and later in New York, she and her husband, Heinrich Blücher, lived as stateless persons, their brilliance appreciated only by a growing group of refugees. Blücher was never to regain his European status as orator and political activist. But he was merely a talent; his wife was a genius. Was America preoccupied by war? Never mind, she would observe and wait. Her time would come. Was English...
Except for Dennis, who has been allowed to turn an interesting neurosis into unbearable monotony, the acting is polished. In her first time on Broadway, Cher proves herself a promising comedienne, but a still aspiring dramatic actress. Altman, however, has engineered the shifts between years with stunning incompetence, while Graczyk, the executive director of the Columbus Players Theater, has overloaded his 5 & Dime with enough junky symbolism to warrant an eviction notice. As each character is stripped of her life-sustaining illusion, it becomes obvious that though the setting is Texas, we are really in Ibsen's Norway. That...