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...commission approved Breuer's plan for a pinwheel of granite walls flanked by narrow pools...
Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat charms. He brings eccentric life to a gallery of characters who are not really characters at all: they are supporting specters in one naive American's gook sonata. They may all be the same person, or no one at all. And in the play's final image...
...doubt that it can be made to pay. But it is already having an impact on cable programming outside Columbus. In March, Warner began selling to cable operators nationwide 13 hours a day of children's programming, approved by Columbus viewers, under the general name Nickelodeon. Sample shows: Pinwheel for preschoolers, featuring puppets, mime and dance; Video Comic Books, showing pages of the Green Lantern and Space Ranger with dialogue balloons, voice-overs and sound effects; and America Goes Bananaz for teenagers, a mix of zany comedy and rap sessions about drugs, birth control, sibling rivalry...
...kids who made up the New Left and counterculture are men and women now. They did not merely step onto the centrifuge of the '60s and pinwheel themselves out in the direction of Aquarius, to vanish forever. Many simply settled down. Says David Dellinger, 62, an elder statesman of the movement: "A lot of people had been leading emergency lives fbr-a-long time. They had put off schooling, babies, their own lives." Whatever their real accomplishments, the New Leftists and their allies during the '60s were engaged in an immense, new kind of theater...
...troupe acted out various scenes from text-books, illustrating the sex-role stereotypes forced on school children. In one scene, the little boys blew on their pinwheels to make them spin, while the little girls waited in vain for the wind to make their pinwheels go. "Maybe there'll be wind tomorrow," the wide-eyed and gray-bearded Ira says sweetly, as he holds up his imaginary pinwheel...