Word: funs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to have some fun, if that word hasn't gone out of style, to complement the studious environment," Lenore Frazier said
PUTTING ON School for Wives is like playing one of those 25-cent games in the amusement park: it looks fun and not terribly difficult, but the odds are against you if you haven't had a lot of practice...
Silly, non? Well, yes, but Moliere knew what he was doing--the play can make for a fun evening. Unfortunately, the Loeb production is not as good as it should be. It's not bad, just very average...
...characters of Alain and Georgette give actors a chance to have fun and ham it up a bit. Michael Cantor plays Alain with appropriate dopiness. Alice Brown, however, fails to take advantage of the comic potential of Georgette, reciting her lines flatly. When she is not speaking, Brown seems to forget she is onstage and watches the antics going on about her with almost complete detachment...
...from it, we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, buy it lunch. But we seem to have less in common these days. It is a bit of an embarrassment. The short story is earnest and intense as always. It is hard to tell it that movies are more fun. And there are other reasons for unease: the short story is a financial failure and its domestic life is a mess. Most of the old mass magazines that once made room for fiction are gone. The few that remain seem to prefer a composite of facts stapled with fictional techniques...