Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emotional conclusion. Now while the success of this on Friday night was extraordinary--the audience rose with a great surge to applaud at the end--I was left (standing) with a strong doubt. The triteness of this final lyric, her emotional conclusion: "And we've got to follow where/the dream goes,/for there will come a day/when all the riches and the rainbows are just a risk away," made one realize that unless we were to take the whole show as a parody of adolescent writing, there had been no consistent intellectual development or even awareness in the work, nothing...
FINE performances in the rest of the cast match the skill in the title roles. Paul Redford is brilliant as Andrey Prozorov, the brother and owner of the estate, whose dream of becoming a university professor is frustrated by a tragic marriage to the bourgeois Natasha (Grace Shohet). Redford skillfully makes the transition from idealistic brother to alienated bitter council member. He epitomizes Andrey's awkwardness in his shuffling, hesitant walk and bursts of speech. And Shohet is deliciously annoying as the pushy, vulgar Natasha, who does nothing but drool--loudly--about her children...
...brave the hazardous marshes of Sawgrass Country Club, a course which is so treacherous that the Professional Golf Association refused to hold its annual Tournament Players Championship (TPC) there this year. Last spring, Alexander was heading for a phenomenal sub-80 round on this monster only to have his dream thwarted by darkness on the 18th tee. This time, the Michigan state champion plans an early tee-off in hopes of breaking the 80 barrier...
...park becomes an idealized, but never sentimentalized, recreation of the brief-lived Utopias that once sprang up in Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and the East Village. Yet Weller does not get carried away by his conceit. His characters talk like people, not platitudinous flower children, and their all too innocent dream does not last forever. Eventually the tribe must leave its forest idyl behind to confront the wintry realities of a society gripped by an irrational...
...situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend on contributions and account for nearly $17 million of the estimated $30 million a year raised for such ventures, and their embarrassing fight could do more harm to the program than anything Communist police and customs officers might dream...