Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's leading characters, Stanley Kowalski and Blanche du Bois, symbolize the eternal struggle of earthy reality v. the romantic imagination, bestiality v. beauty. Of course, the symbols would possess little dramatic strength if the two characters were not vivid flesh-and-blood people. For the play to achieve its maximum emotional impact, much depends on a balance of forces and an electric tension between Stanley and Blanche. The Lincoln Center Repertory Theater revival is slightly, but naggingly off balance...
...Rosemary Harris, whose Blanche is not coquettish enough to suggest any sexual chemistry. She seems too exclusively fanciful ever to be emotionally vulnerable. Blanche's sister Stella (Patricia Conolly) is born to the Southern man or, all right, but we have to take her visceral need for Husband Stanley on faith. Only Philip Bosco gives a performance of perfect pitch, as the shy wooer, "Mitch," who almost marries Blanche until Stanley blurts out the story of her promiscuous past...
...Montreal Canadiens completely overpowered a fading Chicago Blackhawk team, 4-0, yesterday in Chicago to assume a commanding 3-1 lead in the best of seven Stanley Cup finals...
...year-old Plante came to the Bruins late this season from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Plante did well a two regular season games for the Bruins, but he folded under Stanley Cup pressure and lost two key games in the New York Rangers...
Hynes said that he had negotiated with both the Bruins and the Whalers for the last two months before he finally chose to play for last year's Stanley Cup champions. He would not disclose the terms of the contract...