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...leading male roles, both Davis and Gardner possess wonderfully expressive faces and charming smiles, and they infuse their roles with sparkling wit. Davis is particularly amusing in his scenes with Miss Adelaide as he talks his way in and out of her good graces...
Since Oleson commands the stage with his tremendous stage presence, less is required of the supporting cast. Robin and Rossman have a strong sense of comic timing, but they don't fully convey the simple innocence and sincerity their characters possess. Only part of the problem lies in the translation which turns Moliere's verse into heroic couplets...
When presented with a baby, otherwise healthy adults are overcome with the impulse to assume a series of funny faces, and to then make strange gurgling noises. In this way they work themselves into a mad frenzy that culminates in the desire to love, feed, and possess the organic mound of flesh that has just drooled, vomited, and peed on their laps...
Does the bond of the surrogate mother really possess such moral weight? Here an analogy seems appropriate. If the surrogate mother's child cannot legitimately be taken from her by force of contract, what about an artist's creation? Can the work of an artistic genius be sold? Say a wealthy benefactor commissions a statue by some modern-day Michelangelo. In the process of creating a masterpiece, he grows so attached to the work that he cannot bear to part with it. Must...
...except her formidable good looks. The expatriate conspirators, white and black, who gather each afternoon to plot and gossip on Tamarisk Beach are distracted by the dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that she has not directly experienced, a high-ranking ANC official says, "Someone needs to take you in hand, my girl. You are not a fully conscious being...