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...script centers on a married couple, James (Ron Schachter) and Eleanor (Kristen Gasser)--a painting preserver undergoing a mid-life crisis and a part-time music teacher approaching menopause. James and Eleanor's children have all left home, creating a void in the couple's life. Bored, James allows the former lover of his dead friend Albert, a chic young woman named Kate (Nan Dunham), to seduce him into his first-ever extra-marital liaison...
BOTH ENHANCING AND confusing the plot are Eleanor and James' psychological doubles. It's difficult to further describe these quasispirits, and one of the play's main faults is that you never know exactly what the doppelgangers are meant to represent. The doubles sometimes play actual physical parts in the play--for instance, when James' double (Kerry Osborne) speaks to Kate on the telephone--but most of the time James and Eleanor neither see nor hear their spiritual analogues...
...spirits, who eventually speak dialogues with each other, form a play within a play in the second act. The doubles' dialogues often coincide with those of James and Eleanor, and sometimes with great dramatic effect. In one very powerful episode, the two couples' simultaneous quarrels end with both the spiritual and physical pairs yelling the same thing. Unfortunately, when the couples have concurrent dialogues, more often than not, the resulting polyphony is somewhat bewildering. Even so, it is the doubles, not the actual James and Eleanor, who figure in the play's really spinechilling exchanges...
...morning and gathered for the three-mile march on the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol. From there, they marched passed the monument to the White House and on to the Capitol Lawn for a four-hour rally. The rally featured speeches by NOW President Eleanor Smeal, Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, and former New York State Representative Bella Abzug...
...When Eleanor Smeal, the president of the National Organization of Women, spoke at the Kennedy School Monday night, she was not just talking about "women's issues." Though it may survive for strategic reasons, the term is outdated. What have traditionally been called women's issues have emerged as problems of the family, civil rights, gay rights, and abortion...