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...descriptions, and the flashes of pain in between chuckles. Neil Simon shatters Chekhov's mood, replacing it only with his shrill Broadway yocks, heavy-handedness, and sentimentality; moreover, the inherent Semitism of his phrasing transforms the peasants of Moscow and St. Petersburg into citizens of Anatevka. On Broadway, the superb cast of polished goyem almost made you forget Simon; the Hillel actors make you forget Chekhov...
...Open. This spring she won two tournaments in a row before finishing second last week to South Africa's Sally Little in a sudden-death play-off at the Kathryn Crosby-Honda Civic Classic in San Diego. Long off the tee, extraordinarily accurate around the green and a superb putter, Lopez is the young season's leading money winner-$47,317-and is the favorite in this weekend's Colgate-Dinah Shore Winners Circle tournament, the L.P.G.A.'s richest ($240,000) event...
Still, The Fury is fine popular entertainment. Kirk Douglas, as the father, mobilizes a kind of crazy energy he has not displayed since he was a much younger actor; John Cassavetes is deliciously evil as the bureaucrat-villain. De Palma, like Alfred Hitchcock, is a superb technician, sure and subtle in such matters as camera placement and editing. These are skills that are often overlooked when they are not employed in the service of "serious" themes...
Wootten is also a superb and innovative teacher of basketball. To get ready for Alcindor, Wootten had the 6 ft., 8 in. Whitmore hold a tennis racquet over his head all week long so that his teammates could practice arching shots that would float above even Lew's reach...
With Evert serving in the seventh game, following consecutive service breaks by both players, two Goolagong volleys that caught the baseline and an Evert error gave Goolagong a 40-0 advantage. Evert fought off two break points with a superb forehand drive and a service ace, but she netted a cross-court forehand on the next point, and Goolagong had the break she needed...