Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Jean Kerr's comic touch is slightly anesthetized this time out, but she has not lost it. She couldn't. That would be out of character for the author of Mary, Mary and the droll chronicler of suburban domesticity who regaled us with Please Don't Eat the Daisies and The Snake Has All the Lines. Trust her to keep a civilized, witty tongue in her head whatever her characters' antics. Lunch Hour is a tale of extramarital hanky-panky without the id. Oliver (Sam Waterston) and Nora (Susan Kellermann) have rented the upper half...
Chekhov's insistence that his plays were funny simply proves that the best of dramatists may be the worst of guides. The mainsprings of The Sea Gull's plot hardly elicit laughter. The jaded Trigorin (Christopher Walken), a fashionable author of about 35, is sensually drawn to Nina (Kathryn Bowling), an innocent 18-year-old. Watching Nina cradle a freshly killed sea gull, Trigorin jots down a writer's note: "An idea for a short story. A young girl has lived in a house on the shore of a lake since childhood, a young girl like...
Preventing the threatened faculty cut backs is Richard Moll's goal as the new dean of admissions. Author of a guide book for high schoolers and their parents titled Playing the Private College Admissions Game, now selling well in paper back, Moll is at work on a second book, The Public Ivies: Admission to a New National Elite. Joined by new recruiters, Moll plans to visit 600 high schools this year to sell Santa Cruz. Predictably he has also printed 30,000 copies of U.C.S.C.'s first glossy "view book" full of color photos of the Pacific seacoast...
...committee aimed at improving the image of women portrayed in the cases. Susan Carash, the committee's chairwoman, described efforts towards improvement, as "still in the embroynic stages." Unfortunately these badly needed revisions are hampered by the "historical significance" attributed to all case references and by regulations requiring the author's consent to any revisions. Even in a case published this year a female production manager's decision whether to change jobs was described as complicated by "the need to spend time with her new baby boy, her two grade school boys and her husband who had recently opened medical...
...Found-Land trails awkwardly back into an epilogue to Dirty Linen, leaving everyone slightly disappointed. There are virtues in these plays, and New-Found-Land, especially, gleams with the special verbal artisanship that is Stoppard's genius. But there are so many better plays by this author that are as easily staged and as fully gratifying that Winthrop House's production seems like an act of needless mercy towards a play that deserves euthanasia...