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Good things come to those who wait, however, and the second one-act is a decided improvement on the first. In The Long Christmas Dinner, Thorton Wilder returns to Our Town territory as he examines the progression of time through a series of New England Christmas dinners with the Bayard family. While the moral (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is conventional, a number of strong performances and stark though effective staging immediatly command our attention...
...over what they have just seen. But Frye provides an admirable bridge between the play's various moments, her whimsical smile and wry analysis investing the scenes with a relevance that would be lacking if the play ran without a narrator. The Playwright resembles the Stage Manager from Thorton Wilder's Our Town, but Frye plays her role with an emotional immediacy that reminds the audience that Hansberry is constantly discussing events from her own life...
Although he wasn't running for anything, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder sees himself as one of the big winners of the November elections. Exit polls showed that 22% of black voters supported Republican candidates for the House, up from 14% in 1986 and 11% in 1982. Wilder calls these figures "alarming" and speculates that some blacks shared antitax sentiments with many middle-class whites. As both a black Democrat and a fiscal conservative, Wilder believes he is well positioned to lure the defecting voters back. That may explain why his political adviser, Paul Goldman, has registered a new PAC with...
These rising Democrats have also stifled the party's once eloquent concerns for the poor. Now these concerns are seen as promoting tax-and-spend policies grounded in class warfare. Wilder calls for a class-blind election in 1992 and confines his economic proposals to vague utterances about "rooting out waste" and the failure of "Sununu economics...
...WILDER is not alone in this call for a centrist agenda in the Democratic Party. Promising state-elected Democrats including Ann Richards of Texas, Dianne Feinstein of California and Andrew Young of Georgia have all embraced at least some of these centrist ideas. In addition, more established Democrats such as Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, probable 1992 hopeful Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin have made their careers by standing firmly in the center and ringing the bell for moderation...