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...their productive movements behind a seven-foot fence and left those on the street to guess at the marvels transpiring beyond their view. In the case of the T this could easily have led to a dangerous situation of overcrowding in the third floor bathroom of Lehman Hall the splendid panorama is visible through its windows in its entire majestic beauty. Thankfully, Cambridge pedestrians have been spared this inconvenience...
...simmers so gently for so long, as each potential confrontation is deflected with Chekovian shrugs and silences, that when it boils into hostility it sears the audience. Husbandry ends in a stalemate between spouses and generations that has the abrupt finality of a domestic tragedy. All four actors are splendid under Jory's acute direction...
...bracing as a plunge in the surf. Whenever Daryl Hannah, as the sweetly shallow creature from the deep, and Tom Hanks, as the produce merchant who loves her, start to get goopy, there is a New York City street person available to assert the reality principle: Eugene Levy, splendid as a mad scientist who seems to have wandered in from a Jaws sequel, or John Candy, fine as a man who thinks Penthouse centerfolds are philosophical statements...
...deeper reaches, Fo's manic comedy is a splendid treatise on the mentality and mechanics of official lying. The play would have had hilarious pertinence if it had played Washington during the last months of the Nixon Administration. But Fo is examining something more sinister than Watergate ever was. Fo is thinking of a dark, sanctioned thuggery-the kind that kills-and of an endless manipulation of the record, the facts of the past dissolving and reforming themselves into new shapes, like that cloud that Hamlet and Polonius discussed. Certain psychological and moral circumstances, Fo knows, bring about...
...fact that one elected official remained solidly on his side. At his press conference Wednesday night, the President was asked whether Shultz had failed in Lebanon and should resign. Said Reagan: "I have seen that talk, and I think it's disgraceful. He has done a splendid...