Word: ticktock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bawdy but bland story of a Manhattan art dealer (Marlo Thomas), her suburban sister (Joanna Gleason), their respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone for an hour. By the play's end, this coarse, undereducated widow of a house painter...
...Cyprus--reflecting irreconcilable enmities that have existed for centuries. In other places around the world, stabilized injustice seems to be slowly giving way to whatever will follow. For long periods, this movement may only be measurable by the hour hand of history, but journalism feels compelled to note every ticktock of the second hand. The reader returns from a month's vacation to find Jordan's King Hussein still fretting over whether to negotiate with the Israelis, playing a game of pull me forward--no, pull me back. The reader could be away for two years and return to find...
...before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...