Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chapter II. Neil Simon, the bluechip comic writer of the Broadway stage, adds a reflective dimension as he ponders the shadow of a first wife's death falling across the path of a second bride...
...Game. Facing death with a certain caustic equanimity has become a popular stage theme in the past couple of seasons. In this play, a cantankerous old man and an assertive old lady play bracing games of gin rummy even though the cards of life are stacked against them...
...four-member executive office itself. Its head is Henry Ford II, but since last April, day-to-day control has belonged to Vice Chairman Philip Caldwell, 57, a cultivated executive whose calm manner is in marked contrast to the fire-breathing dynamism of Iacocca. In short, at this stage in the history of Ford Motor Co., Caldwell is clearly Henry Ford's No. 2 man, and the new president will...
...journey is precarious. Unless the proper hor mones are present in appropriate concentrations, setting the stage for ovulation and fertilization, this intricate chain of events will not be initiated. The egg will not burst from the ovary, the cervical mucus will be too sticky for the entry of sufficient sperm into the uterus, and the lining of the uterus will not prepare to receive the fertilized egg. Indeed, hormonal disorders at any point in the sequence make it so fraught with peril for eggs and sperm that perhaps a third of all potential pregnancies end at the time of implantation...
Despite her two Northwestern degrees, her awards for stage and television scripts, and her experience as a teacher of playwriting, the author has not fashioned a very good drama. She aims high and has tried to grapple with serious matters, but the writing is diffuse and the characterization thin. Moreover, the pacing is jerky; there is just too much stop-and-go. This is in the text itself, and should not be blamed on the director, Marshall W. Mason, who has done his best...