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...birth of a stillborn baby. Caroline was born in 1957. John Jr. was born in 1960. When she was later asked which First Lady she admired most, her reply was surprising -- Bess Truman. And the reason: her sensible way of bringing up her daughter Margaret in the White House glare...
...case spread across the nation's front pages last week, Woolsey had to go up to Capitol Hill for one of his public sessions before the House Select Committee on Intelligence. The small hearing room in the Rayburn Building was jammed, and Woolsey's bald head reflected the glare of television lights as he announced he would have nothing to say in open session about the details of the Ames case. The committee chairman, Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas, accepted that, but he put Woolsey on notice that the case "raises disturbing questions about the internal controls...
...scenic design, by John Arnone, is appealing once your eyes adjust to the glare. The stage is framed by a painted screen decorated with cheesy '50s icons (tail fins, an "I Like Ike" button) and the omnipresent numerals 1-9-5-7. (That's the year, get it?) Howell Binkley's lighting comes in the same day glo hues, and succeeds most notably when the choreography is silhouetted against bright orange and yellow backlight. The costuming is outrageously gaudy; after the fifth combination of pink and black leather you begin to long for some nice pastels...
Life or art? Both. Freud insists that he always lets his sitters take their own natural poses, rather than setting them up -- as well they might, given the arduous business of being painted for 80 sittings or more under the glare of the 200-watt bulbs in his studio. But whether by accident or design, flashbacks to past art do crop up regularly...
...that ultimately, they are not even sure they know themselves the way they know each other. Albee once said of the conclusion of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, "we must try to claw our way into compassion." The play begins and ends in darkness, and after the brutal glare of judgment intervening, it's an act of mercy to gesture towards a time to heal and recollect ourselves...