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Part of that may stem from the play's lineal parentage. It surely includes Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, that symbiotic study of lonely spirits in stultifying small towns seeking the mind's freedom and the heart's release. Director Vivian Matalon has sensed that aspect of the play, and his cast, wondrous in its ensemble excellence, embodies it. Whether one goes to the theater to laugh, to cry, to muse or to learn, Morning's at Seven satisfies all four appetites. -T. E. Kalem
...grounded in a Gothic past. In general, expressionism preferred the art of the Nordic Middle Ages, with their unrelenting insistence on the "four last things"-death, judgment, heaven and hell-to any Mediterranean tradition. Egon Schiele's knobbly waifs, all etiolated limbs and pinched flesh, are the lineal descendants of the fallen Eves in Gothic art. The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse. Expressionism was an art of confession, directed against the impermeable crust of a deeply formalized society...
...lineal descendant of the late Senate Bill 1, which died in the Senate Judiciary Committee during the summer of 1976, when it met heavy liberal opposition because of fearsome provisions in the areas of sentencing and restraints on a free press. Out of the ashes of that bill rose S. 1437. The trick is that the body of the bill remains substantially the same, with most of the changes in the aforementioned areas...
...people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort of gravity and eloquence. As Eliza, Christine Andreas has the richness of voice that one associates with opera-and, alas, some of the same crimped acting range. She is a more warm-blooded woman than Julie Andrews...
...reliable ingredient in theatrical history: domestic crisis. None achieved the longevity of One Man's Family, a series of almost Biblical length; its 3,256th and terminal episode was labeled Chapter 30 of Book 134. Contemporary TV soaps like As the World Turns and The Secret Storm are lineal descendants of the old radio shows. The pauses are still pregnant-but so are the new heroines. And much of the subject matter deserves an R rating. There were no married priests and no abortions in the afternoons of yore...