Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skin of Our Teeth. This play is thought of quite highly in some circles--for instance, it won a Pulitzer Prize. I always thought it was a little trite, what with Thornton Wilder celebrating the Ability of Man to Endure Through the Ages (with his long-suffering wife in tow). Wilder follows one family, the Antrobuses (like the Greek work, anthropos, which means man--get it?), from the Stone Age to the present, as they weather a variety of trials and they weather a variety of trials and tribulations-marital infidelity, juvenile delinquency, the ice Age. Still, it's good...
...Effie L. Wilder Summerville...
...press and made a speech that was interrupted four times by a heckler. The Secretary paused and commented patiently, "I think I have some of my Harvard students here," and from then on owned the appreciative audience. His charm worked equally well on six-year-old Beth Wilder. When she held up her autograph book to him, Kissinger, spoofing his own legendary ego, asked hopefully, "Am I the first?"-and effectively mimed disappointment when she said...
...strict about who their heroes and villains are and what values are being knocked around. There is substance in laughing at their films because the tricks played have moral meaning. Chaplin's imitation is funny, Groucho's anti-establishment pranks on hotel-managers and rich matrons are funny. Gene Wilder's charicature of Dr. Frankenstein is funny; the audience cheers them on. Jack Nicholson dumping the heiress in a birdbath is discomfiting because she's nice and he's a slimy creep. The indignity should be the other way around...
John Glover understands the nature of Simon Stinson, the church organist, who amusingly overdoes his final consonants to remind his chair members how to enunciate their hymn texts. Stinson is also the town drunk, and his pack of troubles eventually drives him to suicide. Wilder quietly makes a strong point by not only including him among all the other decreased townfolk in Act III but by placing him in the front row of the dead. The handling of the other minor roles ranges from adequate to capable. And Lawrence Casey's costumes nicely evoke the period covered, which is from...