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...that they seem remotely vigorous when the curtain rises. Weller (Cronyn) is in a rumpled bathrobe, and his cane is the only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...
...kill time before it kills them, they play gin rummy. Weller entices Fonsia into what turns out to be almost a blood sport on the assumption that she is a neophyte. That proves to be a delusion. Over a period of weeks, she wins every game except one that she throws to calm his rising choler. Weller is a cantankerous old coot to begin with, and his blasphemies, obscenities and fit-to-be-tied rages deeply frighten and unnerve Fonsia...
...Victorian sensibilities. Mostly Golf contains a rather moving essay entitle "Dickens in Time of War," written in 1915 before Darwin found himself running an Ordinance Depot in Mesopotamia. Darwin's stories are cluttered with chestnuts of wisdom from stories are cluttered with chestnuts of wisdom from Sam and Tony Weller while the cricket match between Dingley Dell and All Muggleton in the Pickwick Papers was for Darwin the penultimate tribute to the glories of English countrified society...
Otis resisted fiercely. Chairman Ralph Weller labeled United's initial $42 offer "totally inadequate" (the stock was then selling for $37.63) and asked Morgan Stanley & Co., an investment banking house, to find a "friendly" partner. Two weeks later, Otis won a preliminary injunction from the New York federal district court blocking United's offer on the ground that the company did not spell out eventual merger plans. Undaunted, United resubmitted its offer, changing it to a bid to buy "any and all" Otis shares. Early last week Otis announced that it had received a last-minute feeler...
Moonchildren. Michael Weller's play about eight students sharing an apartment in the 60's is of course dated--peace marches and draft-dodging seem historical curiosities, almost archaicisms, by now. The play's chief impact, however, was never political; it derived instead from the emotional interaction between its characters, whose apparent friendship yields eventually to a sense of isolation and despair. Unfortunately, the Dunster House Drama Society's production of Moonchildren never fully creates the illusion of an initial community of friends, so the dissolution of that community is less heart-rending than it should be. Nevertheless, this production...