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Within minutes I was on my feet with my towel in one hand and soap in the other, standing at attention on the harshly cold tile floor. After several minutes of being told how pathetic we were, my platoon was hustled into the shower. We held our towels outstretched in one hand and walked under the screaming nozzles in formation, your typical 15-second military shower...
...Neill's plays, which idle in dour exposition before revving into revelation, let them reproduce that effort every night. For playgoers, the appeal is simpler. Once O'Neill warms up his characters -- lets them loose after a few hours of hemming and thawing -- he can dish out terrific soap opera...
...they are worth the visit. The movie squirms to life when the subsidiary folk appear: Rennie (David Strathairn), the engaging "swamp Cajun" with the motor boat; Chantelle's beau Sugar (Vondie Curtis-Hall), whose pleasure in women is a contagious delight; Kim (Sheila Kelley) and Nina (Nancy Mette), two soap-opera actresses who give zest and drama to any line reading; May-Alice's gay, weary old friend Reeves (Leo Burmester), who chats about "homoerotic delftware" that bears the likenesses of "little Dutch boys in compromising positions." Reeves sells homes now. "Real estate," he muses. "What our dreams come...
...ways, Roger offers a voyeuristic peek at the childhood trauma Bill Clinton buried so carefully that even close friends read about it for the first time during the campaign. Bill went on to become the smooth talk-show candidate; Roger remains, in some ways, Bill turned inside out, the soap-opera version. It took just the slightest prodding from Povich for Roger to break down at the thought of his violent father. "I still go up in my hometown in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and when I happen to be home on my birthday, I go and visit the gravesite...
...message is as simple as Ivory Soap's classic "It floats." In this case, it glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...