Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity, there is more talk of love than lovemaking. In their amorous monologues, the two tenderly rue the fact that they could not present themselves to each other as virginal offerings. He adorns her with endearments, and she deifies him with worship. Yet in one explosively funny scene in which he prepares a strudel, the battle of the sexes erupts. She is testy because he has invaded her cooking domain...
PLAZA SUITE proves once again that Neil Simon is a master mirthologist, as in two of three one-act plays he adroitly sketches a satire and broadly paints a farce. However, in the first play, Visitor from Mamaroneck, he achieves a new tone of rue in the poignant confrontation between a much-married duo. The skill of Director Mike Nichols and Actors George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton matches that of the playwright...
PLAZA SUITE proves once again that Neil Simon is a master mirthologist, as in two of three one-act plays he adroitly sketches a satire and broadly paints a farce. In the first play, Visitor from Mamaroneck, he achieves a new tone of rue as he depicts the poignant confrontation between a much-married duo. The professionalism of Director Mike Nichols and Actors George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton matches that of the playwright...
...acters, all set in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Each of the playlets concerns a middle-aged man (Scott) and woman (Stapleton) who are at the end of something rather than the beginning of anything. The underlying tone of much of the humor is that of middle-aged rue mocking itself, the slightly hysterical funmaking that springs less from high spirits than low morale...
...photographs are monochrome and offset-reproduced, and the prose is conservationist and sternly isolationist, not to say jaunty in a scoutmasterly fashion. However, 65 of the 375 species of mammals in America-north of the Rio Grande-are given knowledgeable biographies by an industrious naturalist. Leonard Lee Rue III knows more than other authorities, including Larousse, will let on about the American opossum: Did anyone else know that an infant opossum is the size of a pencil eraser, while a whole litter of 16 would not fill a teaspoon? Most backward and unfortunate of all American mammals, Mother usually...