Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors. they quickly establish an uncanny competence and flexibility that extends through most of the evening. John Archibald as Tillich, a well-meaning white liberal who some how can't accent the fact that his 14-year old daughter has been raped by a black school chum on the first day of a new bussing program, and Marty Ritter as Gertrude. a black Mama with pretensions to middle-class suburbia, are particularly well-cast...
Willie's heart goes out to these people. He laughs with them, not at them. When he visits old chum Orville Sandweiss, now locked into a wife-swapping element of Cleveland society. Willie does not mock bourgeois Orville. He merely describes and wonders how Orville goes on making love to his wife ("I might just as well be sticking it in soapy water," says Orville), Willie finds Orville outlandish and so do we-but it is an outlandishness on the side of the humane rather than the grotesque...
While they wait for the others to arrive, a hitch develops in the evening's party plans. Alan, a straight college roommate from Michael's college days, calls up and insists on coming over. Alan does not know that his old school chum is a homosexual, and Michael does not want Alan to be confronted with this piece of news now. (As he says, "Alan looks down on people in the theatre--so whatta you think he'll about this freak show I've got booked for dinner...
...Miss Frame scrambled her characters and their actions with comparable imaginativeness, this would be a much better novel-or, as Godfrey might have put it, a chum berett loven...
...Harold Pinter. In Tea Party, Sisson, a manufacturer of bidets, is thrown into a catatonic state at an office tea party by the ambiguous relationships of his family and his secretary. The Basement is about a man and his girl friend who move in to share an old chum's flat...