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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amanda's mood swings precariously from the incomprehension of the distraught mother to the glee of the spooning debutante and Ames swings with her. Frustration and her anger singe the air as she peels her gloves commando-like, strutting lost in her own home, crying "Deception" at her daughter Laura...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

TOM IS THE play's narrator and the images materialize from his harrowing memories. He is Tennessee Williams--ne Thomas Lanier--in the shadow of the footlights. Williams had a long-distance father, moved from the deep South to St. Louis and spent three miserable years in a shoe warehouse...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Jamie Hanes portrays a strong, if unspectacular Tom. He delivers best in Tom's narrator role, reflecting over the poetry of his own sentences, speaking softly, a clear ribbon of regret winding through the words. But at tims, Hanes' voice rings too smoothly, Shakespearean in tone, stagy. Tom is a...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

The last of the menagerie's precious trio is the glass animal herself, the crippled--"not crippled, you have a defect," says Amanda--Laura. Laura evokes only sympathy, smothered in abuse and pain, hopelessly shy, wandering alone in her own world of phonograph music, long winter walks and dear glass...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

"Inside the High Court" [Nov. 5] leaves me with the feeling that perhaps our present system of allowing the President to appoint a Chief Justice for life should be scrapped. If the President appointed the Justices, but allowed them to select their own Chief to preside over the court prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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