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Opaque Logic. After his cover was destroyed by his 1967 court appearance, Itkin and his present wife were placed in protective custody. Later, the Government provided the same protection for Itkin's former wife and their four children. As he finished testimony in a case last spring, Itkin was warned by parties unknown that if he made any further appearances, his wife's two sons by a previous marriage would be "crippled." Itkin naturally expected the usual protection to be granted to the two boys, Scot Hersh, 12, and Bret, 11. But so far this has been refused...
...Center Union Party, a slightly left-of-center grouping that was the major target of the archconservative junta that took power in 1967. Arrested in August 1968, he was exiled to Amor-gos. He suffered from arthritis and circulatory problems, but the junta refused to consider his wife's pleas for his release. On Amorgos, there was little for him to do beyond his twice-daily visits to sign in at the police station...
Paralyzed by Inadequacy. This is where the play actually begins, and the events that follow have resonances of The Homecoming-though Irish Playwright Thomas Murphy's play was produced four years before Pinter's. The brothers make passes at Michael's wife and even suggest using his home as a whorehouse. Michael is faced down, raged at and humiliated by his father, who is a perfect blend of aging bull and undiminished blarney. Michael's wife urges him to stand up for his rights. But he is paralyzed by a nagging sense of masculine inadequacy...
Divorced. Dr. Sam Sheppard, 45, Cleveland osteopath who spent almost ten years in prison for the murder of his first wife before a retrial led to his acquittal in 1966; by Ariane Tebbenjo-hanns Sheppard, 40, German divorcee and Dr. Sam's prison pen pal, who claims to have spent over $200,000 in the fight to clear his name; on grounds of gross neglect; after five years of marriage, no children; in Cleveland...
Another problem that bothered me a bit was the stylization of the dialogue: after a while, too many of the characters begin to sound exactly like Willie. The most glaring example is when Willie finds rapport with an ex-wife's nine-year-old daughter-and the basis of this rapport is as much the identical speech patterns Willie and the girl use as anything else...