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South House's production of the play is long on energy and humor, but short on tension and meaning. Director Steve Drury maintains a quick pace by emphasizing punchy one-liners and alternating settings, but it is a peculiar quickness without tension. The audience merely waits from one witty remark to the next without expecting or hoping for any particular action. Wasserstein's views come across, but not forcefully, and they seem less relevant to life at Harvard than they ought...
After a Penn punt the Crimson took over at its own 33 with exactly two minutes to go and proceeded to engage in one of the most peculiar drives of this or any other season. First, Acheson went 53 yards off tackle, only to have the run called back for illegal procedure. But Buckley worked the clock like a master and moved his team and a nine-yd. pass to Beatrice moving Harvard to the Penn three with 32 seconds to go in the half...
...battles for the title "Milkman of the Month," not so much for the first prize, a color television, but for the recognition. When confronted with a last-minute obstacle to his victory in the contest, he says in protest, "I'm a darn good driver." The moment has a peculiar poignancy; Melvin's hurt is genuine...
...whole thing just may be viewed some day by calmer minds as the most distorted and peculiar political event yet invented in a system that had already run off the tracks. One good fellow compared the episode to an enlarged replay of Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit-the rabbit being 6-ft., 1-in. Reagan with bushy hair and pink cheeks. All night long Carter swatted away at the intruder with his nuclear paddle and kept Reagan from climbing in the canoe and taking a bite...
...friend is Warren Penfield, a failed poet who prints his own works, a baleful-eyed generous man, fatter than Warren Harding himself, a world-traveler, a peculiar sort of war hero, a Buddhist. Penfield twists the story; he exists in the first person at times, but these are Joe's versions of Penfield. And Doctorow dances between the future and the past. One moment Penfield is a coal miner's son from Seattle, the next he is a Caucasian gorilla probing the mysteries of Zen in a rice palace outside Tokyo. And Doctorow's prose switches just as quickly...