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...telephone jangled in the Fairmont Hotel's Room 75 overlooking San Francisco Bay, its waters ashimmer in the morning sunlight. A young woman picked up the phone, announced: "Salinger for Senator." In the roomful of newsmen and politicians, no one flinched more at the strangeness of those unlikely words than puckish Pierre Salinger, 39, who less than 24 hours before had been happily padding about the White House in his job as presidential press secretary...
...serve will come to nothing. We admire decency and we despise death, but even the mountains seem to shift in the space of a night and perhaps the exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely woman with a bar of sunlight in her hair, putting a fresh piece of cuttlebone in the nightingale's cage." > A drunken Episcopal priest who has forgotten his liturgy may utter a valid prayer: "Let us pray for all those killed or cruelly wounded on thruways, expressways, freeways, and turnpikes. Let us pray for all those...
...When the second act begins, sunlight has replaced the moon, everyone is cranky and bored. Songs in a jazz tempo replace the ballads of the first act. Everyone's nerve ends are exposed in the superbly done number "This Plum Is Too Ripe," which has few words and punctuates its gripes with "Sorry." And the wall is built a new (this time it is a wall of bricks and not of fancy) while the boy and the girl turn to the "real" world, she to an affair and he to the open road...
...version of The Fantasticks. The actors remove themselves from the story to joke with each other and with the audience; yet Skolnik has coached them to make a flawless transition from portrayers to portrayed. And he has succeeded in making dewy, sentimental lines like "my bride will dress in sunlight with rain for her wedding veil" sound plausible. He has skillfully used the mute (Lorenzo Weisman) in his various roles as a wall, a tree, a bricklaver, and nature...
That sprayed gold-tinged pillars of sunlight...