Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While it is difficult to say at this stage whether such a move is feasible, Bell's statement shows that the government will do what it can to prevent the ERA from going down at the hands of woefully misguided equal rights opponents. The amendment might receive the three additional state ratifications it needs before the March 22, 1979 deadline, but, then again, it might not. Accordingly, an extension could be necessary. Because it is unclear whether the seven year limit was a part of the amendment per se, changing the time limit could conceivably be legitimate...
Neurotic families are much more interesting than normal ones--at least on stage. A good mix of Oedipal tangles, money, repressed anger, dark power plays, and a pinch or two of insanity ought to guarantee an enthralling evening, right? After all, the recipe worked for Oedipus and Hamlet...
That seems to be the idea behind Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," now at the Lyric Stage in Boston. The Hubbards are a juicy enough bunch: the miserly patriarch with a shadowy past; his wife, a religious fanatic; one son who schemes ruthlessly; another who whines and steals; and a daughter who compares unfavorably with Scarlett O'Hara. While Alabama in 1880 isn't a Danish castle, at least it provides a set of usefully poor neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan...
...that, "Another Part of the Forest" never approaches the level of great drama. In part, it's the fault of this particular production. The theater is tiny (about one hundred seats on three sides of a floor-level stage), and which brings the audience uncomfortably close to the intense emotionality onstage. Watching the play becomes like eavesdropping on the people who live through the fire-door. The decor and lighting never change, and the costumes look as though they'd been thrown together out of somebody's attic...
...unDanly suave; a mysterious portrain of an exotic woman, it is its own glossy message, carefully designed and stated. There are not bad cuts, but there are several excellent ones. "Aja" and "Deacon Blues" stand as the album's keystones, musically leading the way, lyrically and philosophically into another stage of Steely Dan's growth. The horns and sax are slick, and the sound bottoms out with creditable vibes by Victor Fedlman...