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Director Reta Diekman wisely imposes little on these elements. Lynn Jeffries' sparse sets--just a bed in one scene, a table and candlestick in another, two benches in the third--typify the laissez-faire approach that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest...
...spaces. They are also separated by one of the most enduring municipal rivalries since Athens slandered Sparta. "Houston," says Dallas Mayor Jack Evans of the grittier rival city, "doesn't wear well." Besides, add Dallas chauvinists, Houstonians are the ugly Americans of Texas. Dallasites, responds Houston Post Columnist Lynn Ashby, "are the Swiss of Texas." What is more, says Houston Businessman Lan Bentsen, Dallas residents "have no sense of humor...
...Lynn Walter Norwich, Conn...
...Cornona's staging, while not particularly inventive, is smooth and fast, and the performers--Bari K. Willerford, Jack Marshall, Lynn Bowman and Christopher Childs--are terrifically funny. The find of the evening is Barry Nolan, the well-fluffed host of T.V.'s Evening Magazine, as the producer. The role is in the great vaudeville tradition of fast-talking, resourceful, unscrupulous profiteers and Nolan, behind big glasses, uses his deep, oily T.V. voice and ingratiatingly plastic manner with self-effacing cleverness. His line readings are fresh and unpredictable--never milking a joke for a second longer than it deserves--and though...
...unthinkable that Remy would depart for greener pastures. Last year at this time people questioned whether Fisk, a New England boy, or Lynn, a Boston institution, would leave the area if the difference was merely money. Maybe they wouldn't have, but by the time the Sox got around to negotiating, the difference was much more than money--it was a matter of pride. The same thing is happening with Remy, and so it is no longer surprising that the Cohasset native who was there when the Sox won it in '67 could very well be in Oakland this time...