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...Should Soak Up That Shower of Gold...
...West's resentment is understandable, but it is precisely in the West-and especially in the U.S.-that oil's new shower of gold should be invested. There is no other place for it to go, and such large investments would also help both the West and the OPEC nations. What has to be settled now so that this can happen is the who, how and how much of an infinitely complicated investment situation...
...guitar and the fiddle and the steel and the piano are the real talkers, but they speak the same language. Betts's guitar riffs play on tension-and-release--building a taut peak like any good sixties guitar (only more delicate), then instead of dropping it letting it shower down intact, shaking leaves off a tree. Everything soars and subsides, but in tiny arcing weblets rather than waves. This is the kind of guitar that can have a conversation with another instrument that's not an emotional confrontation between the actors, but more like dolphins nipping and frolicking...
...Miller looks a dozen years older-as many veteran miners do. His face pallid, his hair steely white. Each morning he soaks in the shower for up to an hour, just to get his arthritic body ambulatory. It is the legacy of 22 years in the mines...
...relationships, as the play unfolds. But Brewster's development of this side of Kate is hampered by an excess of vitality. Her surprising tenseness at the beginning of the play, while dramatically provocative, undercuts the numbed aloofness that is a necessary counter-balance to the prevailing tensions. Kate's shower in the second act cleanses her of the sordid jealousy displayed by the others, and leads her to the comfortable isolation in which "Everything's softer...There aren't such edges." But Brewster plays this dreamy, solipsistic rejuvenation as a social instinct, a feeling of warmth toward the others, rather...