Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pounded by the Pacific on all sides, Cypress Point is perhaps the most breathtaking course ever built. O.B. Keeler, the biographer of Bobby Jones, wrote that the Monterey cypress that line the fairways appeared to him as "the crystallization of the dream of an artist who had been drinking gin and sobering up on absinthe...
...GIN GAME...
This drama is set in an old-age home, but one suspects that none of the pensioners are quite so feeble as the play. As dramatic carpentry, The Gin Game is made of balsa wood, while the performances of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy rival the sturdiest oaks. Their artistry is compelling, and they supply the play with, its only bracing vigor...
...kill time before it kills them, they play gin rummy. Weller entices Fonsia into what turns out to be almost a blood sport on the assumption that she is a neophyte. That proves to be a delusion. Over a period of weeks, she wins every game except one that she throws to calm his rising choler. Weller is a cantankerous old coot to begin with, and his blasphemies, obscenities and fit-to-be-tied rages deeply frighten and unnerve Fonsia...
...ending is gaspingly melodramatic and violates the stream of plausible behavior. Maddened by Fonsia's gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem