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METROPOLITAN. In this fizzy, poignant social comedy, a group of preppies lounge in a Park Avenue salon. They discuss Jane Austen novels, speak in Henry James sentences and try to live in Philip Barry's plays. Their manners are ) impeccable (a deb can be paid no higher compliment than being called "well read"), their snobbery impregnable (one boy doesn't have a driver's license because, he tuts, "I'm no jock!"). They know they are out of fashion and cheerfully debate their irrelevance, like dinosaurs analyzing their own bones. Most of them are moneyed, but they soon must admit...
...summer day on Maple Street. See Dick and Jane play Nintendo. See Mommy and Daddy turn off the switch. Whine, Dick, whine! Pout, Jane, pout...
...family drives to a big school of red brick. "This was where I went," says Daddy proudly. "In olden days, they made kids go here. But you, Dick and Jane, are so very lucky. You can choose...
...nice teacher with a big smile greets them. She uses large words like achievement and learning modalities. Then she tells Dick and Jane about important stuff. "You could have hot dogs or hamburgers every day for lunch," she says...
...have the money?" ask Dick and Jane eagerly...