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...dancing" depicts the Sisyphean efforts of a handful of fiftyish, faded Wasps to revive the most glittering institution of their youth, a midwinter charity ball. A few of the daydreamers become fixated on reuniting the best dancers among them, a onetime romantic couple who were always outsiders in this prim upper-middle-class world: a girl who was much richer than the rest and a handsome "Irishman on the make" who was much poorer, Roman Catholic, and a blunt social climber. These two roles are double-cast to make the many flashbacks more vivid and to allow for an evocative...
...commercial law, a reserved woman who by all accounts is given more to listening than to talking. On the other was Clarence Thomas, 43, a courtly man who from his college days has enjoyed a reputation for treating women with particular courtesy and respect. Yet there she was, this prim law professor from the University of Oklahoma, seated in the glare of klieg lights before the Senate Judiciary Committee, calmly detailing graphic charges of sexual harassment against the man who until last week seemed virtually certain to be confirmed as the next Justice to the Supreme Court...
...Harlem. It brings together a moneyed sophisticate, black in parentage but not in apparent culture, and the down-home, ethnic- talking show girl he has yearned for but lost track of since a chance encounter years earlier. They meet as he is on the verge of marrying the prim, domineering daughter of a minister. Most of the action arises from the show girl's I Love Lucy-esque contrivances to get her man. The side plot, about Prohibition and a nightclub's hidden supply of booze, is even sillier. Again, contemporary audiences may be a little queasy about the condescension...
...hours on the road because of the travel time and then the games," she says. "You wouldn't expect `prim and proper girls' like us to chow down, but we sure do. I don't think I'm any worse than the rest of them...
...demand for imagination rather than representation, the cast pulls it off rather well. Michelle Haner is well-cast as the youthful and somewhat spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...