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Despite the taut direction of Stephen Hollis, the cast is uneven and does not provide the claustrophobic mood that the play clearly demands. Tom Waites is fine as Oliver, and Pauline Flanagan's Eve is a model of laced-up propriety masking inner compassion. Christina Pickles conveys the teasing coquettishness and parched loins of Molly well, but never makes her love for the boy convincing. For a man who is obsessed by the approach of death and his wife's infidelity, Michael Higgins' Teddy is a shade too passive...
...first time, Nixon, his taut face betraying his discomfort, admits publicly that his repeated claim that he was only trying to keep the FBI out of national security matters is "untrue." Indeed, it is obvious that what he sought to stop was the FBI's tracing of money found on the Watergate burglars back to his political committee. Nixon concedes: "It was a grievous mistake to have gotten the CIA involved in this thing...
...overture to Mikhail Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla is one of the most overworked pops-concert favorites. It is also one of the best-taut, joyously melodic, brilliantly orchestrated. Thanks to the inquisitive Sarah Caldwell, we now know what follows the overture-an equally delightful opera. With Caldwell on the podium and in charge of stagecraft, the Opera Company of Boston opened its 19th season last week with the first known staging in the U.S. of this Russian classic...
...Mackin: "People who do what we do are fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite the opposite. "I have a small circle of friends," she says, "who don't mind if I come late to dinner...
Under Ulu Grosbard's taut direction, Kenneth McMillan anchors the play as a bluff but bewildered shop owner. John Savage captures the confusion of the wild-eyed junkie who responds to the shop owner's paternal warmth...