Word: tenderized
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...TAKE IT WITH YOU has been restored to Broadway with loving care and craft by the gifted APA repertory company. The comic zaniness of the Sycamore family is a delight, and an unforeseen bonus is the tender re-creation of the '30s as a golden age of moneyless innocence...
Robert Mariotti, as Tom, fails to show the battle of his yearning for freedom with his affection for his family. His tone is too flat, too conversational, and the tension he should feel is not apparent. When he tries to be tender, he only whines; when he tries to be angry, he only shouts. The sharp insight he should have is muted and dull...
...late George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart would scarcely have dreamed that a scene like this could form the tender touchstone of their 29-year-old farce-comedy, but Director Ellis Rabb and his gifted APA company have had the wit to see that two people falling honestly in love on a modern stage is a total surprise. They have further grasped that the '30s can be nostalgically re-created as a golden age of moneyless innocence, and that in an era of black comedy, human comedy has vastly appealing warmth...
...than it has collected in taxes. The cost of such xtravagance is West Germany's gaudi est inflation in 15 years. With consumer prices up almost 4% from a year ago, the German Hausfrau has to pay $1.08 for a dozen eggs, $2 a Ib. for not-so-tender beefsteak. Last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, his re-election safely behind him, finally announced a cut back in government spending...
...same people who don't like the dwarf don't like Lowenthal, the Jew. This ship, you see, is German, and the year is 1933. Tender-hearted Lowenthal laughs off the discourtesy of his shipmates: "There are nearly a million Jews in Germany. What are they going to do, kill all of us?" At which point Kramer stops the music, ends the conversation, and gives the audience ample time to gasp...