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...Oscar (Nicholson), the short goofy one, marries her instead to make the theft legal, and they smuggle her off to California to wait for her 21st birthday. While they are busy making inept plans, the audience has time to notice what a fortune Nichols has already stolen: characterization from Laurel and Hardy, a plot unembellished from a basic list of Most Popular Themes, dialogue from the stock lines of period scripts, style and method from 20's and 30's vaudeville, and even a set which is unmistakably from The Day of the Locust. Stealing is fine if the director...
...this piece changes mood rapidly, sometimes striving toward the darker musical depths, sometimes, as in the second movement, content to rely on an engaging dance-like tune. While Kogan showed a sensitive ability to vary his tone and style in response to the shifting demands of the music, flutist Laurel Zucker tended toward shrill, unsupported bursts of sound in the high register in trying to create big dramatic events, and cellist Kevin Plunkett, with gruff attacks and a hard-edged tone seemed unwilling to respond to the lyricism of the writing...
Emil H. Levine Laurel...
That strategy will no longer work in one state. The New Jersey Supreme Court last week banned restrictive zoning throughout the state. The ruling resulted from a suit brought by the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and nine individuals against the town of Mount Laurel, N.J., a well-to-do suburb of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs had argued that the state constitution guarantees all citizens equal protection under law, but that some people, specifically Mount Laurel's 20,000 residents, were more protected than others. The opposition did not deny that the zoning was restrictive but insisted that remedy should come through legislation...
Going even further, the court demanded that the towns devise land plans that will attract families of all social and economic levels. Though Mount Laurel will take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, most experts feel that the justices will not consider the case because it is based exclusively on New Jersey law. The precedent it sets, however, is likely to influence other suits against restrictive zoning in states across the land...