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...Hartford's refuse last year to buy his son a Christmas present and give a handicapped friend $60 worth of knitting yarn. The Miller family of Portland, Ore., has found bottle collecting even more profitable. Foraging for Coke bottles along a state highway last February, they found 149 crisp $100 bills scattered by the road. When no one laid claim to the cash after six months, it was Miller time to the tune...
...understated soul searching, plenty of entertaining characters. It is also extremely well acted at every level (one especially wants to single out Bob Balaban as the Government's chief aggressor and Wilford Brimley as its belated voice of conscience), and directed by Sidney Pollack with a sort of crisp but unassuming professionalism that is rarer than it ought to be. Perhaps best of all, the script, by sometime Journalist Kurt Luedtke, who was once part of a Pulitzer-winning investigative team on the Detroit Free Press, has a marvelously entertaining intricacy, briskly and believably building, half-inch by half...
...sanctioned by a fundamentalist group in the southern city of Asyut, which had launched attacks on police stations in Asyut soon after Sadat was killed. Finally, the plan was accepted by the plotters' spiritual leader, a blind mufti named Omar Ahmed Abdel Rahman, who had $20,000 in crisp new bills concealed in his underclothing when he was arrested after the assassination...
...most part, the play moves quickly, the three players working in tight ensemble. The timing is crisp, not only in the dramatic moments but in the sharply sarcastic bits of humor laced throughout. Even more importantly in a production with such a small cast, the dramatic tension seldom flags, the monologues seldom ramble. There's a risk in doing a play with only three actors, but there can be a certain magic as well. Luckily, Moore has sensed that the magic of Slow Dance lies in the passions of his characters and has given them correspondingly free rein...
...instance, in "Creating a Family with Style," Crisp and Carroll ask, "If you are a stylist you will buy pets for your children because: 1) it will give them a sense of responsibility; 2) it will save you having to play with them; 3) you want the pets for yourself; or 4) you want an alternative food supply in case of an economic depression." Funny, right? There are actually answers! They are ranked to indicate how much style you have. Here they are: 1) 0 pts. 2) 3 pts. 3) 2 pts. 4) 1 pt. The "funny" answers seem...