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Alan Paton wrote Cry, the Beloved Country 34 years ago. For generations, that plaint emanated from the country's black majority, imprisoned by apartheid. But now there is a cry on the other side of the barbed wire. It comes from the ruling Afrikaners, whose agony rises from the clash between an irrevocable past and an unrelenting future...
...these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas it seems pellucidly clear that they have copped out on life...
Albee's plaint about Sutherland: "He hasn't been onstage in 17 years, so he's scared out of his mind. There were some scenes that he thought were possibly a bit too difficult for him, so I had to simplify a couple of scenes a little bit." Responds Sutherland: "Absolute bull. Every once in a while Edward would write something that was not terribly good, and one would say, 'Edward, I don't think I can do that.' Nothing had been rejected on the basis of my being incapable of doing...
Despite the mediocre numbers, the year rates as at least a partial success. Harvard's top seven players included one senior, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. The traditional plaint of the losing coach--"it was a rebuilding year"--actually works this time...
While moviegoers have been weeping this winter over the wrenching divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer, lawyers have been shaking their heads. Their plaint is not that the couple's attorneys in the film are the least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband...