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Though not terribly original, this premise has the potential for real drama. However, Family Secrets provides two-and-a-half hours of utter boredom, and the one incident of dramatic interest--the confrontation between mother and daughter--is buried at the very end of the play. The play could easily be cut down to 15 minutes and no one would miss a thing...
Given the turgid writing and directing, the actors should be more pitied than censured. Maxime, forced to utter unwieldly long speeches and act "old," still demonstrates stage presence and manages to make Theresa a sympathetic character. Her emotional range is limited, but one cannot tell if this is her own deficiency or her ill-conceived character's. Raz has to spend a lot of time pretending to develop pictures and reacting to her grandmother's speeches. But one feels she's at least trying to add some zest to her character...
...have had only one conversation with Barnicle--in front of two witnesses, who both remember it for its coolness and brevity. It did not include any discussion of "Asian women." I would never utter--or think--the kind of racist, sexist perverted slur Barnicle attributed to me. Barnicle made up the entire story, as he well knows, in order to demonstrate his point that it is easy to take a cheap shot at a public figure...
Even a nation accustomed for some time to meager supplies and long lines has been stunned by the utter disappearance of milk, meat, produce and even bread. Some stores have taken to closing early in the day for lack of anything to sell. To halt worsening shortages, Leningrad took the dramatic step of introducing rationing of key staples last week. Moscow is also debating emergency measures. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev until the end of this week to come up with a plan to halt shortages in major industrial areas. Addressing a meeting of the Moscow City Communist Party...
...believe in the Moping Dog doctrine. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about the inconsistencies of human behavior: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...