Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above all, it is the magnificent performance of Rochelle Crasnick as the plain-thinking, plain-speaking, all-knowing maid, Dorine, that does the most to elevate this production to its consistently high level. Like most of Moliere's family servants. Dorine is the only truly unaffected character in the play, outside society and unconcerned with formalities. Using every inch of Philip Drysdale's excellent set, curled in an oak-panelled corner of Adams House dining room. Crasnick dashes around the stage, eavesdropping on conversations, stage-managing a love affair, and rallying forces against the hypocrisy she so intuitively sees through...
...rebuttal, Susan Sullivan, a member of the Chicago-based Committee for Handgun Control, told the Congressmen: "Seventy percent of the people want strong gun control. The people are plain outraged at the violence...
...hard to imagine where an organization could find a man who was willing to discuss the only the implementation of the bonus plan--its bureaucratic impossibilities, and government meddling. But the YAF reached into its libertarian bullpen and produced the agreeable Rusher. This slow, just plain boring speaker (one Yale dean lunged for a book which he gleefully read upside down for a couple of pages in mid-argument) never moved beyond the gospel according to William F. Buckley. His laissez-faire attitude even extended to his unpolished debating techniques, apparently not improved by his stint...
Latest News. Between its plain blue covers, the New York Chronicle packs as many as 128 pages with the latest on arrests, imprisonments and other official Soviet harassment, the texts of government decrees squeezing civil liberties in the U.S.S.R., copies of correspondence between Soviet dissidents and their supporters in the West, as well as manifestoes, open letters and appeals for amnesty from persecuted Soviet dissenters...
...balance, readers of The Moneychangers will come off encouraged. Fiscal virtue triumphs in the end and has the final words on finance as well. "Banks and the money system," he observes, "are like delicate machinery ... let one component get seriously out of hand because of greed or politics or plain stupidity, and you imperil all the others." Hailey apparently does not feel the same way about fiction. The insider's details that give his novel its texture simply bury its feeble literary qualities...