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...Feiffer describes the slice of America the cartooned pair was meant to symbolize: "Greenwich Village make-out men, wine and cheese parties...bosses who thought it was a violation of friendship to ask for a raise, anxious fathers sand possessive mothers. Village men and women explaining themselves in an endless babble of self-interest, self-loathing, and evasion." Bernard and Huey, Feiffer expains, were "Robert Benechley heroes launched into the Age of Freud...
...Soviet leaders have proved to be much more ideologically rigid. Economics Professor Gertrude Schroeder of the University of Virginia estimates that the Soviets are now working on their 14th set of "reforms" since 1965. Says she: "These aren't reforms as much as endless changes in their planning procedures. The real trouble is rooted in the system. To correct their problems, they must decentralize the economy." Decentralizing the economy, though, would mean dispersing political power, and the Kremlin is hardly eager for that. In addition, the vast Soviet bureaucracy has a vested interest in resisting economic reforms...
WHAT HOLDS ALL THESE revolutionary approaches to gather is consistently superb line reading not only on the classic soliloquies but even during the endless stretches of desultory verbal fencing. He even incorporates the rarely heard second second-act prologue which summarizes the lovers developing plight...
While this purist attitude strains the cast and audience endurance to the limit, it somehow manages not to spill over. With the unfortunate exception of Romeo's sidekicks Benvolio and Mercutio (Kate Levin and Jeannie Affelder), almost everyone -- even the servants saddled with endless forced Elizabethan puns --manage to speak in natural tones. Silver as Juliet stands out particularly in this respect, somehow projecting both the terrified innocence of a thirteen-year old and, gradually, the woman's depth of commitment and tragedy Few Juliet's have matured so convincingly...
...adapting to the language. Rauch's elaborate conception loses its oddity and begins to work like another part of the technologically miraculous set, whose pieces and extensions metamorphose into beds, bathtubs or starry summer nights without detracting from the matter at hand. Likewise as long as Rauch uses his endless vision as a tool and keeps it out of the foot lights, he can work miracles on stage...