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...response from business was irritation, self-defense and what amusement it could afford. Du Pont Chairman Irving S. Shapiro called Big Business Day "an ideological Woodstock." Mobil Vice President Herb Schmertz said it was "demonstration by press release." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce covered the front of its Washington office with gigantic American flags and probusiness signs. "This is obviously a self-serving day by Ralph Nader and some labor leaders," said President Richard Lesher. The conservative Heritage Foundation declared April 17 "Growth...
...father, Herb (Ron Leibman) formerly a successful screenwriter, now has a seemingly terminal case of writer's block. He is bantering away his life. Asked if he owns the West Hollywood Spanish stucco quarters he lives in, he answers, "Hell, no. The apartment belongs to six termites who lease it to four mice, and I rent it from them." An off-and-on bedmate, Steffy (Joyce Van Patten) completes Herb's agile ménage...
...after Libby (Dinah Manoff) appears, with no advance notice. Libby, 19, is the daughter Herb had deserted when he left New York after a divorce. A tomboy sort, wearing green-bordered knee socks and walking boots, Libby has trekked across the country to find out what her father is like. She suffers instant disenchantment. Dressed in seedy duds with a baseball cap glued to his head, Herb is not at all the David Niven type, with pipe, Great Danes, and book-lined living room, that Libby had envisioned...
Nonetheless, the two are drawn to each other in large and little tendernesses and spats. This is where the play drifts into emotions of sitcom dimensions. Herb falls in love with Libby, not incestuously, but romantically and possessively. Libby's mocking jests cannot hide the scars of the unrestorable years. At one point, she pins Herb down, demanding to know why he divorced her mother. Herb rather lamely answers that the lady totally lacked a sense of humor. Logically, this is the weak point of the play. A man as perceptive as Herb would have spotted a congenital...
This year's U.S. team, assembled by Coach Herb Brooks from cold-weather colleges in places like Massachusetts and Minnesota, were occasionally ragged, but as tough and willing as a neighborhood mutt. Just a few days before Lake Placid, they had lost to the Soviets, 10-3, in an exhibition game in Madison Square Garden. But at the end of the first period last Friday, the Americans left the ice with a 2-2 tie, thanks to a last-second goal scored by Mark Johnson from the University of Wisconsin. When the Soviets returned from intermission, they came...