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...ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Only one year remains until the deadline set by Congress. Supporters of ERA chanted in New York, prayed in Atlanta, held candlelight vigils in Fort Lauderdale. The stars came out in Los Angeles (Singer Helen Reddy), in Boston (Author Jules Feiffer) and in Denver (former First Lady Betty Ford). In Washington, D.C., a crowd of 2,500 cheered when Actor Alan Alda declared: "You don't have to be conservative to be against ERA, you just have to be wrong...
...President, declared Jules Feiffer in Boston to noisy approval, "is making the world safe for white, male, heterosexual millionaires. Women have rights...
...exasperate the audience with little pin-pricks of domestic jokes and quarrels. The sets are detailed, maddeningly familiar portraits of normal family rooms--a suburban kitchen, with postcards pasted to the fridge door, and a Manhattan living room, with stuffed chairs and a dinky stereo playing a Brandenburg concerto. Feiffer's play, in this fine production, is both funny and chilling: funny because it's written and performed with care and style, chilling because everyone in the audience seems to recognize their parents, their friends and themselves on the stage...
...slogan went, mad as hell, and the right-wing addressed their legitimate complaints, while the left ignored them, or accused them of greed. Consequently, the left had little to offer except more of the same--a clearly unsatisfactory status quo. "Like the respectable antiwar protestor of Jules Feiffer's 1966 cartoon who carried a sign calling for A Little Less Bombing, the cautious liberals of the late seventies were for a little less cutting. It was not a slogan likely to bring anybody to the barricades...
Funded by a $250.000 grant from the American Express Foundation, a company of about 25 will present Andrei Serban's "Sganarelle: An Evening of Moliere Farces" and "Grownups," a new play by Jules Feiffer...