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...innumerable interviews. Most of the questionnaires were distributed through NOW, Oui, Mademoiselle, Ms. and The Village Voice--which obviously slants the sampling toward certain income levels, races and frames of mind. (I would bet no female Ford Motor Co. factory worker ever saw the questionnaires.) This is undeniably a flaw, but not of the magnitude that some reviews have made...
...perhaps, that failure is her book's major flaw--nowhere does she undertake a sympathetic examination of the effect of the status quo on anybody other than women. If the structure of mothering in society were really the only source of world problems--Rich blames patriarchy for every problem from anomie to malnutrition--her argument might be valid; if women alone were exploited under the present system, then repossessing our bodies would feed everyone. Her paranoia blinds her, forcing her to reach a puerile conclusion. Which is too bad, because she starts out with an uncontestable argument. It's just...
...slick production legs only in the unnecessarily long second act. Gibson can perhaps be criticized for failing to produce conspicuous interaction between members of the cast, most of whom seem to be aware of other actors only when they must speak to them. Again, this is partially a flaw in the play itself, which shows off individuals and not the company as a whole...
Quickly remedying this flaw, the Concert Band found its former ensemble and enthusiasm in the ending Fugue, exhibiting just the right tone color which is contained in Hindemith's orchestration. The scope of the work--17 brass, 26 reeds and 3 percussion--was all the more evident in the Symphony in B flat as the group finished with polish and convincing togetherness...
...THERE IS A FLAW in The Family Arsenal, it is that Theroux's map of London is too well marked. As in theater, nothing is what it appears to be. The apparent innocence of children becomes cruelty. Men are unmasked as women and women, men. Because Theroux insists on our acceptance of his nightmarish conventions from the beginning, nothing come as a real surprise. The connections, like the streets of the city, lead from one to the next...