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...Past Tense begins, the stage is not quite bare. The stripped-down living room contains two sets of hand luggage-his and hers-and a sofa shrouded in a white slipcover, symbolic, perhaps, of a once warm marital bed. But Emily (Barbara Baxley) and Ralph Michaelson (George Grizzard) soon fill the room with the emotional furnishings of their life together. So much of love is shared experience that a permanent parting seems unreal...
...figure lies motionless on a second-hand red sofa, stomach down and almost totally obscured by a mass of towels, heat pads and sweatpants. He looks more like a mummy than the Harvard cross-country captain, but a rustle of movement and then a groggy head rising from beneath the heap of cotton reveals his identity. It is Stein Rafto, standing up in pain to lead the Crimson cross country team on a long early morning...
...Fernwood, Ohio, the home town of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the studio of WZAZ-TV is almost painfully tacky. Guests sit on a tattered pea-green sofa, plumped with lavender pillows held together by safety pins. In front of them are gumdrops, a plate of carrot slices and celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese...
There you are in your Bishop MacPherson High School trunks and your undershirt, sprawled across the sofa. You had considered typing up the footnotes for your Gov. 106b paper, but decided that it is only an hour till lunch and by the time you set the typewriter up, look up how to do footnotes in that book from Expos freshman year, and crack your knuckles a few times it will be time for salad plate 21 and vegetarian cheeseburger...
...true that the Lord slept late on the seventh day. He woke up around noon, took two aspirin for his hangover and then ate a brunch consisting of scrambled eggs, bagels and lox. Afterward, He relaxed by lying on the living room sofa but He soon became bored because there was nothing to do. You see, He had not yet created the Sunday comics or television so He could not watch the playoffs...