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...play slows down in the second act as it fragments more and more. This is usually called "Second Act Trouble," and O'Donnell has it--his play and his plot stop moving and his characters stare at their feet and examine themselves. Tyler desperately grapples for Missy and she, not wanting to deal with new-realized realities of existence, squirms away from him. Otis finds his campers rebellious, and as vandals invade his property and ruin his rowboats this pathetic non-Prospero finds his dream dissolved, his charms overthrown; "what strength I have's mine own" is not very much...
...only took three or four of the opening crashing chords to humble Pabst. Supposedly, Pabst spun around in amazement, and then jumped off the podium to stare incredulously Horowitz's hands. At the end, the house rose, screaming hysterically. The leading critic wrote that "not since Hamburg discovered Caruso has there been anything like this...
...Marriage, but maybe a glimpse into the middle seventies when through, say, a feminist sharing group, Mrs. Elliot would have the chance to communicate her despair with other ex-wives in the same aimless, professionless bind. One hopes so, at least, because she can't sit and stare at the symbolic wallpaper forever...
...Stare's fund raising strategy extends to his fairly extensive writing. He writes on occasion for magazines like Harper's Bazaar, he explains, for a very specific reason: "... you might wonder what the hell [I] have an article in Harper's Bazaar for, but it's a very influential magazine because women read it sitting under hair dryers, and many of these women are wives of important people and foundation executives...
...Stare, who stepped down as chairman this year under a School of Public Health ceiling on the age of those performing administrative duties, sees no danger that his concern with raising money for the department might color his writing, teaching and testimony on nutrition. All corporations can expect from him, he says, is the truth...