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Most regrettable is the casting of Nora Seton as Nora, who looks and sounds remarkably like Shirley Temple. When, early in the play, she twitters to her husband. "You're gonna be making a BIG salary and LOTS of money," one expects her, at any minute, to burst into a chorus of "The Good Ship Lollipop." Instead of a pampered, sheltered woman forced to realize her inner strength and need for independence. Seton's Nora is a scheming pixie. Seton gives Nora the resourcefulness of a very clever child in lieu of intelligence. We don't see Nora's growing...
...version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourrée; Pablo Picasso holding a penlight in his darkened studio, carving a picture out of thin...
Speaking before the current drive to register 18-year-olds began on Monday, Nora Leyland, a BAARD spokesman, warned that "It looks like we're headed for war one way or the other." She added that her movement could not realistically hope to shut down registration, but would settle for "gaining more publicity and making it as hard as possible for the government to get a draft...
...regaled us with Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All the Lines. Trust her to keep a civilized, witty tongue in her head whatever her characters' antics. Lunch Hour is a tale of extramarital hanky-panky without the id. Oliver (Sam Waterston) and Nora (Susan Kellermann) have rented the upper half of a Southampton beach house that Designer Oliver Smith must have had in mind for Neiman-Marcus. Oliver is a marriage counselor. He may have counseled his mother and father. Nora is a leggy, braless blond goddess with a slightly crisp manner...
...cast up by the tide, an urchin messenger, shod in jogging sneakers, knocks on Oliver's door. This is Carrie (Gilda Radner), a child bride of 22 going on eleven. She heartbrokenly announces that Nora is having an affair with her husband Peter. Peter (David Rasche), a multimillionaire, "is rich for a living," and he must have spied Carrie from his private jet, since he could scarcely have been smitten by her at Polaroid range...