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...everybody except her artistically minded husband Morris (Gerald Hiken), seem to have been carted to the stage direct from Mme. Tussaud's. Unlike Mme. Tussaud's waxwork historical figures, these characters do have lines to say, but the play might move a little faster if they were mute...
Chairman Hua thus tacitly conceded that he could not guarantee the loyalty of all the 4,000 delegates expected to attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many...
Bonnie Zimering as the Mute is a refreshing fountain of understatement. Her careful, graceful mime and dour expression accented by simple, effective make-up, transforms her role from a piece of furniture and dispenser of props into a wise and mournful critic of what goes on around her. She is sophisticated without being aloof, sympathetic but not saccharine...
...plot are thoroughly absorbing. When all the endless viciousness becomes tiresome, this is in fact the only quality which holds the play together. Deeper elements are hinted: all sorts of unnamed fears, complicated hatreds, distortions of familial roles... but for all the overt turbulence, the inner voices remain mute...
...White House hopes that the fact that the brief was originally drafted by two blacks-Solicitor General Wade McCree and Assistant Attorney General Drew Days III-might help to mute some of the expected criticism...