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...ruined Ekdal family and the shame they feel at taking handouts from their former business partners, the Werles, permeate every emotional connection in the play. The Werles' first-act party takes place in shadow behind a mirrored wall, which later turns out also to have concealed the grim garret where the Ekdals live. When the action shifts there, lush red drapes bordering the stage drop to the floor, as if a veil were ripped aside to reveal reality. The staircase leading from the living floor to the aerie where the Ekdals keep caged birds, including the duck of the title...
...Wall Street Journal observed, "the rhetoric has cooled and the grim statistics stare everyone in the face, white and black." Unfortunately, in their belated acceptance of the problem of teenage pregnancy, Blacks and liberals have headed in the wrong direction...
...were evacuated when a levee on the Yuba River suddenly burst. By week's end worried officials in areas north of San Francisco were casting a nervous eye on brimming reservoirs. All of which has left Donald Neudeck, California's chief of flood operations, marveling at nature's sometimes grim capriciousness. "A little over a week ago," he says, "we were in the throes of a drought...
STRIP AWAY THAT humor and one is left with a grim reality. As is, the movie is filled with an almost unrelenting--even unbearable--realism. For all his affection for that city of "people, traffic, and restaurants," Allen cannot conceal the fact that New York City can be a lonely place. It is a place of lonely singles who entrust their lives to doctors and analysts, where highbrow culture is merely an expensive distraction from ennui, and where material riches can not compensate for spiritual bankruptcy...
...That grim figure was above average even for the Philippines, where violence is a traditional fellow traveler of politics. In 1961, for example, before Marcos appeared on the presidential scene, 35 people were killed during an election campaign; that is still considered a postwar low. In 1984, during National Assembly elections, more than 100 fatalities were reported...