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...turned 44 that day, Colonel Moore broke out a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon and warmly toasted 1) the President of the U.S., 2) victory in South Viet Nam, and 3) "the loyal, brave and great infantry soldier who has to run around tired, stinking dirty, with wet feet, under enemy fire. God bless...
...teacher; Beth is a nurse. Both work in the interior sealed off from the coast by the dense jungle of the Crocker Mountains. Their post, Tambuman, is a town of 1,000 people. Some 10,000 people farm the surrounding countryside, where the careful geometry of the wet rice paddy is dominant...
...play does more than dabble in sentiment. It is wet with it. But Playwright Friel frequently and expertly applies the dry saving sponge of humor. Without O'Casey and Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs...
...himself, Johnson tries to express a recognizable, timeless image of the human figure in the wet, free speech of oil paint. To keep it from becoming rigid and lifeless, he keeps himself off balance too, has even painted over his shoulder without looking at the canvas...
...there is one brand of poison that an advertising man supposedly fears more than a wet martini, it is an account on the rocks. Actually, Madison Avenue has had to learn to live with both occupational hazards. During the past year clients switched no fewer than 290 accounts from one agency to another...