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...Andre De Shields is a cat of cool gray nattiness and Ken Page is a slithery streetwise shark with a mi metic gift for Waller's gravelly mocking asides. To give the show its rightful name, "The Joint Is Jumpin...
...implication is lost in the metic ulous revival at the Long Wharf Theater, which tenderly evokes the Millers' tribal intimacy. Even so, the play could have been cut. Dick is too fragile a character to sustain interest, and his mooncalfing is made graceless by O'Neill's wooden dialogue. But Arvin Brown's staging has a rich visual impact reminiscent of Fellini. A dwarf of a maid scuttles around the dinner table, which is dominated by a jolly drunken uncle (John Braden) sucking on lobster shells. Button-nosed Spinster Teresa Wright alternately gig gles and blushes...
...still an emigree, you might say, but no longer a wandering Jew. I have settled down, it's just that my sense of perspective is different. Taxi-drivers still ask me where I'm from. I don't mind. Culturally, a colleague once described me as being the 'metics' metic'." She smiles wryly. "Although not at all religious. I feel myself very much a Jew. If I need a tag. I guess it would be 'Jewish metic...
Stories of the brutality with which he has been accused of receiving German delegates to the Armistice, Marshal Foch did not trouble to deny or defend. Metic- ulously he described the details of that fateful meeting on a railway siding in the forest of Compiegne?in the third person. The last ten years of the Marshal's life, he dismissed in one sentence, the last in the book...
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