Word: westons
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...muggy Tuesday evening, and in the crowded gymnasium of a suburban Connecticut high school 60 miles from Manhattan, Reaganomics has come home to roost. Welcome to Weston's annual town meeting, a 200-year-old form of democratic self-rule that once was as common in New England as the American elm, and now is becoming increasingly rare...
Wealthy and Republican to the foundations of their $350,000 clapboard colonials, Weston's voters gave an overwhelming 72% majority to Ronald Reagan and his economic policy of cut and slash. Now the small town (pop. 9,000) is up against a little painful cutting...
...spring, a middle-aged man's fancy ponderously turns to thoughts of airline hostesses. This despite the fact that Nick Callan (Len Cariou) is engaged in a less taxing rite of renewal-joining with his wife (Sandy Dennis) and their best friends the Zimmers (Jack Weston and Rita Moreno) and the Burroughses (Alan Alda and Carol Burnett) to open the latter's vacation house for the season...
...life passage with good-humored civility. Alda is particularly good at examining the male sensibility. Cariou's philanderer is troubled by the directions in which his sexuality has driven him, puzzled by the ways in which marriage has ill used his wife as well as himself. Weston's worrier is rich and touching as it becomes clear that his comic fussings over his diet and his money are a way of raging against the dying of the light. Alda is perhaps hardest on the man he plays, showing that the very characteristic that has made...
Topping an able cast, Backer and Weston give performances of impelling honesty. But the play lacks internal consistency of tone, and Allen has botched at least four essentials in the magic of theater-surprise, imagination, vision and revelation. -By T.E. Kalem