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Bonnie, wavering between teaching English and physical therapy, is happy working at the store. Taking advantage of a break in the rush of customers, she slips outside to light up. Exhaling slowly, the smoke runs out in a steady stream, casting transient patterns into the dark air. She flicks the cigarette onto the pavement, momentarily contemplative. "Treat Store 24 with respect," Bonnie concludes seriously, "we're people too. I'm not in college, I'm working but that's not my fault...
...prose, unfortunately, often sounds like this: "Yet I couldn't help noticing, alone with Freddy at his visit's end, how much more freely my tongue wagged and my mind worked than they did with Claude. It wasn't that I'd made the wrong choice. Friendship's chattering stream simply came as a relief from the uncharted water of love, though it was to these that I'd committed myself...
Mansfield unleashed a stream of arbitrary adjectives about gays and gay love--"shameful," "stunted," and "irresponsible," to name a few--without bothering to put forth data that supports his arguments. On what basis is Mansfield qualified to make sweeping generalizations about the sex lives of bisexuals, gays, and lesbians? Has he done extensive research on the subject, tracing the course of gay relationships and interviewing same-sex partners...
...will witness strange things during these maniacal days. He will be asked to show his ID to get into the Yard. He will attend a Dartmouth party in Leverett House. He will see thousands of allegedly hip weekend funseekers with nothing better to do than watch an endless stream of grunting crewbies row, row, row their boats gently down the river. He will see trashed teenagers wearing sweatshirts advertising every college and prep school in the Western Hemisphere...
Like all Mamet plays, Speed the Plow is all talk and no action. Pompous airheads loaf around the stage, vomiting a constant stream of meaningless platitudes, feigned emotions and boasting bombast. With sinister skill, Mamet makes good intentions look laughable, self-analysis futile and reform impossible...