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Alan's father is a do-gooding socialist printer and a self-righteous authoritarian moralist who gets his after-hours kicks at skin flicks. At the stable where he works on weekends, Alan is sexually aroused by a pert, enticing co-employee (Roberta Maxwell). In a nude scene that precedes the play's climax, they try to make love but Alan falters. He feels that the eyes of his gods watch and condemn him. Then the horror begins...
Wycherley made even his minor characters convincing and more than mere dramatic foils, but Turner's producation rarely allows them anything but sheer entertainment value. At this, however, they are superb, and David Natzler as Novel, "a pert railing fop and admirer of novelties" carries on his own one-man show...
...PERT AMINA, Indonesia's state company, has prospered by attracting 32 foreign oil companies to explore and by allowing them to earn handsome profits. Until recently, the companies retained up to 58% of the oil that they produced and gave the rest to Pertamina, which sold it. Now, with prices soaring for its low-sulphur "sweet crude" and production up to 1.4 million bbl. a day, Pertamina is renegotiating its contracts with foreign concerns to bring the government share up to 60% or more...
...this fall. The students are as diverse as the courses they take. Nine-year-old Triton's student body of 16,681 (up from 1,243 in 1965 and 13,034 last year) includes housewives, off-duty cops and laborers in their fifties, as well as pert teen-age coeds...
...Pert, occasionally impertinent Newswoman Sally Quinn, 32, this week begins squaring off against NBC's Barbara Walters each morning on CBS-TV. During rehearsals leading up to the debut, she was alternately laughing hysterically and feeling "frozen with terror." Sally shares an apartment with her longtime boy friend, Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post, but their schedules leave them few free hours together-she works from 1 a.m. till noon, he from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. When Sally moved to Manhattan, her colleagues at the Washington Post, where she had been a reporter...