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...football player turned alcoholic. Shattered by the death of his friend and teammate, Skipper, Brick is even more hurt by the accusations that these two friends were homosexual lovers. For much of the play, Caplow has Javerbaum hover in the background as he drinks himself into peaceful oblivion. The few times that Javerbaum is required to express rage are more believable when contrasted with his normal drunken indifference...
...characters in O'Neil's Long Day's Journey have two ways of living in the fog they so desperately seek--either live the lie of the Norman Lear family, or drink themselves into oblivion. The actors in this production do not appear drunk enough to make their concessions natural. O'Neil's stage directions speak of a "real, if alcoholic, affection" expressed between Tyrone and Edmund, but this never becomes apparent. O'Neil; emphasized human kinship as a source of isolation but also of communality--O'Neil's love for his third wife empowered him to write this play...
Whether or not Wofford upsets former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in this week's special election in Pennsylvania, the magnitude and reasons for his comeback from near oblivion offer significant lessons for those unlucky enough to be seeking re-election in 1992, including, especially, George Bush...
Sure, I could have saved myself some stress--and earned myself some sleep--by rolling up a magazine and smacking him into oblivion. But I think this was a better system for both of us. The spider got to live. And I didn't have to take its life away...
Early ratings for the newcomers are only mediocre, and some of these shows will undoubtedly spin into oblivion. (Reagan's show is the first one reported to be in trouble.) But potential successors are already cranking up. Dennis Miller, the former Saturday Night Live wiseacre, will have a late-night forum starting in January, and Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg is set to star in her own talk show next fall...