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PERSONAL AND SEXUAL politics, rather than corporate ones, tease and distort the audience's expectations in the evening's second play, Bonnie Salomon's Who's the Fool Now? which takes its inspiration from the true story of a writer who commits suicide. Anyone expecting a letdown from Cradle's shuttering close should be not only pleasantly surprised but downright rolled up by a play that is satisfyingly complex and refreshingly free of the problems to which first plays by undergraduates are liable to fall prey...
...graduated and now works as a secretary in the publishing house where John hopes to submit his book. Nothing is exotic or stylized about either the situation or the characters, who dress in the same kinds of clothes you just saw at intermission, and speak like your roommates. Salomon has relied on no easy gimmicks; everything must stand or fall by the writing, the construction, the plot...
...stand it does--for Salomon, it soon becomes evident, can really, truly write dialogue. The continuing repartee between Natalie and John, besides revealing humor and a fine ear, clearly delineates a couple of unusual characters. Porter, the stronger actor, fashions a strikingly individual Johnny out of scenes and speeches that often border on the lyrical. There are jokes with a personal stamp, characteristic expressions, a characteristic cadence. After he has left the outraged Natalie for two days, he returns to her with a speech about a pool game that evokes both a concrete scene and a mental state with startling...
...federal deficit are themselves acting as a prop against steep rate declines. Adding "off-budget" financing by federal credit agencies to the stated deficit, the Federal Government borrows about 35% of all the lendable funds in the country. Henry Kaufman, chief economist of the investment banking firm of Salomon Bros., predicts that as a rising deficit bumps up against the borrowing demands of businesses and individuals, "the downward trend of interest rates will probably reverse before midyear, and in the second half, long-term rates will once again threaten their peaks of 1981." Worse, there are widespread fears that...
...slopes, boosting the fortunes of airlines, the carriers are reporting staggering losses for 1981 and predicting worse misery for 1982. Airline executives and industry experts would not be surprised to see one or more major carriers declare bankruptcy this year. They could, says Analyst Julius Maldutis of Salomon Bros., "repeat the Laker experience...