Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also gives Westermann's pieces a typically hermetic and defensive look: protected by their glass enclosures and crates, armed with hooks, hasps, locks and hinges, they take their stand as small fortresses of care and responsibility against an inimical world of non-art-ratty execution, sloppy thought. This point is neatly made by A Close Call, 1965. Inside the box, a wooden doll with an ermine's head reels backward to avoid a dagger that has penetrated the glass ceiling...
...exact same story. What makes each one different is its vantage point. The first play, Table Manners, unfolds in the house's dining room; the second, Living Together, is set in the living room; the third takes the characters Round and Round the Garden. Though each play can stand on its own, the trilogy forms an enormous jigsaw puzzle: every time a character leaves the room to go somewhere else in the house, his exit becomes an entrance in one of the other plays. Through Ayckbourn's Rashomon-like device, the audience feels that it learns the whole truth about...
Schlesinger has temporarily filled the jobs with stand-ins dragooned from other DOE duties, but this has raised legal snarls. The General Accounting Office ruled that four acting chiefs (general counsel, inspector general and two Assistant Secretaries) had not been confirmed by the Senate and therefore had no legal authority in their jobs. Though the Justice Department disputed the opinion, the issue is causing uncertainty about even the most routine regulatory action...
L.B.M.: Now you're talking. But then what? I don't think I can stand two hours on a plane, in or out of Airport...
...John Travolta has the stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive and energy he displayed in Saturday Night Fever or even the nicely observed rebellious indifference he delivers in Welcome Back, Kotter. All he is asked to do here is stand around and smile sweetly, thus leaving what amounts to a large black hole at the center of the film, into which, finally, an entire made-up universe disappears...