Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California, visiting six amusement parks in search of the ultimate ride. Her technique was simple: sit twice in the front car for the view, twice in the rear car for the speed and once in the middle car for the simple joy of the ride. Says Phillips: "I love it. There is a wonderful Middle American hedonism at those parks - people going some place to indulge in selfconscious, safe, clean...
Kahn's ability to avoid the mawkish trivialities shows in his two recent books. The first, The Boys of Summer, was a story of his love affair with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, the Ebbets Field titans like Snider and Furillo and Robinson, and how they braved the autumn of their retirement. Suffused with the warmth of an adoring child who has recognized the mortality of his idols, the book was an endearing autobiography as well as a finely-tooled bit of nostalgia...
...authors of I Do, I Do might have done better to use some lines from the first sketch to sum up their play, instead of the hackneyed "life and love" lines. Innocent Agnes tells her husband she has never seen a naked man, and he responds, "You haven't missed much." The smightould be said about the play. I Do, I Do just doesn...
...marriage, starting in the 1890s. The play's message is neatly summed up for the audience (in case they managed to avoid it) in the final duet: "Marriage is a very good thing though it's far from easy--still it's filled this house with life and love." For every crisis and every resolution, there is a song; but as the music and lyrics are scarcely less cliched than the plot, the songs hardly lighten the play. A few of the numbers contain some surprises, but they would have to contain a lot more to balance things...
...husband has an affair--Angel does a brilliant job with "Flaming Agnes," the song that marks the crisis--but she is jerked almost immediately back to the traditional role, better expressed in songs like "What is a Woman" (answer: "A woman is only alive when she's in love"). This is a very predictable play...