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After precisely eight months and twelve days in office, President Roberto Eduardo Viola last week was removed by Argentina's ruling three-man military junta. Early in November, Viola, 57, had stepped aside voluntarily to recuperate from a heart ailment. He yielded power to an interim President amid widespread rumors that he would be permanently replaced because of his notable lack of success in managing the country's deepening recession. Indeed, repeated attempts were made by junta members to convince Viola to hand in his resignation. Then last week the junta summoned the stubborn President to army headquarters...
...love of Olivia (Gaye Williams), is a Casablanca Bogart, white dinner jacket and all. The allusion makes his slow transition to lovesick goon particularly hilarious when he takes to staring soulfully into space, smoking cigarettes from a gold case and obliviously blowing clouds of smoke into the face of Viola (Caroline Isenberg), who, from under her disguise as his servant, gazes just as wistfully...
...characters underplay too far. Isenberg in the role of Viola leaves a bit too much to the script. Hailed by other characters as vivid, brilliant, sensitive, this Viola does little but throw up her hands in despair as she is mistaken for her brother, attacked by Toby and Aguecheek, adored and insulted, and made a pawn of. The play's grand denouement scene falls prey to this gradual slowing of pace, seeming just a bit too serene as a set of twins and two pairs of lovers are reunited...
Longy String Quartet--Suzanne Gilman and Monica MacMichael, violins, Emma Rubenstein, viola, and Trevor Handy, cello; music of Haydn; Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Auditorium...
Musical Evening--Anthony Martin, Linda Quan and Nancy Wilson, violins, Mitzl Myerson, harpslchord, and Alice Robbins, viola da gamba; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...