Word: stews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hunter's Stew...
...substantive signals that he will moderate his course, either as he watched the election returns or in subsequent White House meetings on the budget. He followed the results with his closest advisers and their wives in the family quarters at the White House, the guests balancing plates of beef stew as they watched the network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than...
Sequestering incompatible people on islands, in hotels or at roadside hash houses under duress is one of the hoariest devices known to drama. Vide, The Admirable Crichton, Grand Hotel and The Petrified Forest. The notion is that some transcendent revelation will descend on these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas...
...skillful balance of genre painting and cartooning keeps this whole stew surprisingly fresh Say Goodbye succeeds by not taking itself seriously by self-consciously laying it on thick in words, music, and action. But this is no Hasty Pudding Show of unceasing parody; the satire in Say Goodbye is sympathetic, knowing, and often cedes to real drama, suspense, and romance. The characters may be stock, but they are imaginative, well-rounded versions of old standards...
...talking Alex. As Patti, however, Ann-Margaret is listless; she seems to have given up on trying to inject any energy into here role. Of course, the script never gives her a chance: Patti's character is merely a contrivance of the plot--an extra ingredient thrown into the stew to provide an attractive diversion from the rather bland main course...