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...comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly Picon and Gertrude Berg. However, her miming as the maid in Drainpipes owes more to French farce than to Ibsen...
...drew their wooden swords and thwacked at each other with all their might till both little boys ran away. Two little girls wheeled out a big baby carriage and propped up a life-size doll. Then they dressed it up with all the grown-up ladies' clothes that Mama had stored away in the attic ages ago. One little boy skipped and jumped over to a big blackboard, chalked up those deathless words: MARY LOVES BILL...
...inhabited by a family of lifelike dolls. Any bright little girl can move the dolls by manipulating a magnetic wand underneath the floor. "It's a new concept," explained Exhibit Director Mrs. Janet Freud (whose father-in-law claims kinship to Sigmund). "Now the child can control Mama and Papa. The mother can go to the sink or she can iron at the ironing board. The mouse goes down his mousehole, the dog into his doghouse. The cat chases the mouse, and the girl can carry a letter." What does Father do? "He goes along with the mother...
...four other treason defend ants beside Mama Tula in the dock, Teiko Tagoe, 20, readily admitted to possession of a live hand grenade at a meeting of Nkrumah's party last January. Another, Joseph Quaye Mensah, 57, owned up to mailing the Redeemer an anonymous letter warning, "Dear Dr., This is to inform you I am still chasing you until I ... have you killed," but pleaded that he was only trying to scare Nkrumah. When the testimony ended, the three white-wigged judges filed out, spent another two weeks preparing a 6,000-word decision. When they returned last...
...death of his brother, his parents' favorite child, the doctor fell ill and tried to atone by dying. In his sickbed, he saw (or did he imagine?) his mother trying on her mourning finery and soothing him: "You're going to go away to be nice to Mama, aren't you, my love? You won't get well like a bad little boy . . ." Match was sure he had insulted his parents by being born ugly: "I was never entitled to the qualities of a child. I will always regard myself as a duty or a crime...