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Since ancient Greek dramatists began chronicling their athlete's exploits, few plays have pleased both kinds of audience. Steve Kluger's comedy, Bullpen, currently playing at the Hasty Pudding Theatre (12 Holyoke St.) attempts to completely satisfy both parties, and almost does...
Left as stereotypes, Kluger's play would fail to hold the audience's attention into the later innings. But the players' predicament creates an excellent vehicle for making the characters more interesting. The vulnerability of each player to the manager's axe, brought out best in separate monologues, successfully shows their strengths and weaknesses. Both Tank and Boomer's monologues are especially moving and genuine...
STAR WITNESS by Richard Kluger Doubleday; 471 pages...
...novel, Members of the Tribe, and in Simple Justice, documenting the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation, the legal system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down...
...hires Ellen Trask, a woman whose credentials are even more formidable than Tabor's, and with the ceremony of gunfighters, the two legal amazons go at it. Tabor wins, but neither she nor the towers are safe from predators. In the end she is pregnant and jobless, but Kluger makes sure that she is not quipless. Pondering an abortion, the expectant mother muses, "The Law is my shepherd, I shall not flaunt...