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Director Angels Delichatsios stays true to the playwright's original time period and location without denying the modern-day American implications inherent in the piece. For instance, Jimmy (James McPartland) and Cliff (David Marmor) slouch front and center in easy chairs for most of the performance like Beavis and Butthead precursors, flipping through newspapers as if they were television channels...
Jimmy's counterpart Cliff is a stoic, but Marmor takes this impertubability too far. Cliff may be a "noman's land" between Jimmy and Alison, but he is also clever, and Marmor sometimes allows humorous lines to go by without giving them the wit they deserve...
...common shot places a figure in the extreme foreground and the extreme background. Women run or walk tensely down long, narrow hall-ways that force the gaze nearly through the plane of the movie screen. The camera leans over a rocky cliff, peering over men's shoulders to a search party far below. Sandro looks over his shoulder to a women standing in front of a painting who turns to look...
...buzz of helicopters and small planes carrying sightseers. The number of air passengers has doubled since 1987, to 800,000. On the busiest routes through the canyon, an aircraft streaks by about once every 90 seconds, which has created a noise level that harasses wildlife and threatens fragile cliff formations. Congress has restricted the flyover areas to about half the canyon, but the National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration are devising regulations to limit noise and air traffic even further...
Eighty-seven Republican House members demanded the resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders two days after she peppered reporters with statements about "the un-Christian religious right." In a letter to President Clinton, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns, other lawmakers and spokespersons for right-wing Christian groups said Elders "has not chosen to utilize her position to advance the general health and welfare of all Americans but rather to advocate views antithetical to the majority of citizens." Among the Surgeon General's more provocative statements, in the past seven days: the legalization of narcotics should be considered, and girls should take...