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Roberta Maxwell, who starred in the original Broadway cast of "Equus," has had much experience with the wild eccentricity of Shaffer characters. At first playing Lotte Schoen as a caricature of a grim dowager, Maxwell slowly transforms her into a woman with a profoundly complex history and nature...
...thing by their correct names; what Adam calls a `four-pronged white squirter', she instinctively calls a cow. Her superior knowledge disturbs Adam, but he reassures himself by flaunting his comic abilities--all of which has nothing to do with terrible fate, bit it gives levity to the otherwise grim storyline...
Allen compensates for the grim premise by offering an array of characters as a source of comedy. For example, a sword swallower (Mia Farrow) leaves her clown-lover (John Malkovich) after catching him with the fortune-teller (Madonna). She finds shelter with a bunch of prostitutes (Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin) and winds up getting paid for sex by John Cusack...
...elusive leader of the nation's most powerful crime family persuaded the jury he was nothing more than a misunderstood plumbing salesman. But this time the government's case looked perfect. The witnesses did not lose their memories on the stand. The tapes were clear. The underboss spilled the grim details. The jury was protected. "The Don is covered with Velcro," said the assistant director of the FBI's New York office, James Fox, "and every charge stuck...
...jobs by 1995, or nearly two-thirds of the remaining aerospace labor force. That would be in addition to 71,000 mechanics, engineers and managers who were already laid off over the past three years. General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the grim outlook last week during a visit to Los Angeles. Said he: "Everyone needs to wake up and smell the coffee. I'm telling my folks at the Pentagon, 'Guys, we are having a hell of a fight this fiscal year, but it is nothing compared to what is coming next year...