Word: trios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sister No. 3 and her husband have reached a silver wedding anniversary that obviously isn't polished. But if they've lost the magic, they've kept the mirth, at least until each begins quizzing the other about extramarital affairs. The mother of this trio is a salty old Irish Catholic biddy who has one dying wish: that her Dutch common-law husband make an honest wife of her before a priest...
Unfortunately, one could scarcely care less about this flaccid trio. The blood of life does not pump through them. They are reveries and idle speculations posing as people. Dramatically, the uses of the past are betrayed in Old Times. At the end of the play, nothing about the past has been clarified or illuminated. Nor has what Eliot called "the present moment of the past" been reclaimed. It is the reclamation of the past as present vision that accounts for the power and poignancy of such plays as Long Day's Journey into Night, The Glass Menagerie and Death...
...read and talk. Bucky, however, was a hopeless case. When he was six, Beverly made the excruciating decision to put him in the same institution in Massachusetts where Peter's retarded daughter was already lodged. On the same day, she sang all three heroines in Puccini's trio of one-act operas, Il Trittico, at the City Opera. Says Director Frank Corsaro: "It was the only hysterical performance I have ever seen her give." Since then, says Rudel, "she has matured so greatly. While basically she has not changed, she has become much more profound. And yet, you always feel...
John Stewart's album of last year, Willard, was one such little-known success. Ironically Stewart, a former member of the Kingston Trio, has always been extremely sensitive to the fine details of his AM-oriented boyhood in Los Angeles. Because he chooses to describe those details, instead of reproducing them. Willard is probably inherently unsuited for AM play...
...best songs on Willard are largely nostalgic views of a past to which he doesn't really want to return. He is almost academically concerned with the mundane activities which absorbed the peaks and depressions of most people's lives at the time of the Kingston Trio...back-seat loving, pumping gas, truck driving, horse driving, driving...