Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway ever erects a monument to a patron saint of laughter, Neil Simon will have to be it. He is back in good form in California Suite, a quartet of playlets in the same mold as his Plaza Suite except that the setting is now the Beverly Hills Hotel...
...than a buck, and I felt that all these people with a golden opportunity to do something for others were just slipping into a slot where it was easy for them to make it; they are cheating themselves, allowing themselves to be less than they could be, fitting the mold when they're the ones who don't have...
...Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born in the New World...
...Mold. To begin to judge Brown, one must ask how he has performed as Governor. He can claim a number of credits. He recruited young, toughly inquisitive, well-schooled officials cast much in his own mold-administrative inexperience included. (It also helped if a person had been a classmate of Brown's at Berkeley or Yale Law.) He hotly pursued affirmative action: the Governor's seven-person cabinet includes two women and one Chicano; one of his California state police bodyguards is Penelope Cravens, 27, a former stewardess. Helped mightily by a $768 million black-ink bequest from...
...BLACKS is elusive; it demands ironclad direction. While director John Kirkwood is good at smaller-scale direction--the short scenes, the more straightforward monologues, and the blocking--he fails to mold the play into a coherent whole. At times characters portray themselves, at other times they take on a variety of roles--these crucial transitions are too often undelineated. The court speeches (the easiest and most comic roles) are inexcusably weak. Claude Sloan, David Brain Wilkins, and Don Gillespie (as the Missionary, the Judge, and the Governor) merge into one spewing monotone; the Queen should be a mannered foil...