Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ruth S. Perot Mobile...
...life is spent in pursuit of love. He may be threadbare, even unprepossessing, but his willingness to adapt himself to any woman's whims and moods makes him irresistible. He will stop at nothing to get his way, and he never stops. "Life with Norman," says his wife Ruth with bitter understatement, "is full of unexpected eye movements...
Luckily, there are a couple of generous compensations. Carole Shelley is so stingingly sarcastic as Ruth that the scenery shrivels. As Sarah, the super-housewife, Estelle Parsons yaps through the trilogy like an angry Peke. Funny is as useless a word to describe them as high is for Everest...
...ways a period piece. Fortunately, most of the play's humor derives from classic comic situations--the intelligent girl as social misfit, the pretty girl surrounded by suitors trying to out do each other to win her favor. Some of the Chodorov and Fields jokes are pretty unfunny now--Ruth is asked twice whether she strips, because "We're always looking for new faces"--but then again, they probably weren't very funny to begin with...
...Ruth and Eileen had to leave. Before innocence is invaded by experience, before artistic aspirations become careers, the sisters must troop through their musical paces in company with the rest of Cadiff's talented cast. It's all worth it, though. In the end, their not staying home becomes reason enough for you not to either...