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...gave his shirt to me, the Navy two seat told me that last week he was in the seven seat." Teske said. "Even with the modified German rigging that they use, it was still quite a personnel change. Much more radical than our switching of J.B. Kelly and Matt Arrott--especially this late in the season." Teske added...
This was the second victory since the switch last week of J.B. Kelly from six seat to stroke, and Matt Arrott, last year's stroke, to six. The boat was noticeably smoother, most team members said. "Overall, the pieces seem to fit together in a better synchronization," two-seat Kurt Teske said. "The team has really gained confidence since San Diego," he added...
...focus. Wilson doesn't so much expound the politics of America during World War II--the confusion on the left, the economic uncertainty, the awe at America's slowly unflexing muscles--as weave it into his characters' histories. At great length, with much defensive joking and shuffling of feet. Matt tells the story of his family's victimization at the hands of the "Great Powers" of Europe during World War I: with even more reluctance. Sally describes how her family had reduced her to a commodity on the market of wealthy-family marriages...
...play's most difficult areas--evoking a time and a crowd of people through only two performers, and holding an audience through two hours without an intermission and without any visual or sonic pyrotechnics. Ralph Pochoda and Maryann Plunkett define themselves against each other from the start: Pochoda's Matt is fidgety, defensive, and given to speechifying--his mouth seems to hemorrhage words. Plunkett's Sally takes a pose and holds it, folds her arms over her chest, and seems almost sullenly reticent--giving up words only with great pain. Their contrast, and their ability to paint the absent members...
...them to the American dream even before the Levittowns had started sprouting in every suburb. But there are no speeches about the horrors of the system in Talley's Folly--their dissatisfaction turns inward. It is on this ground that Wilson's two characters finally come to terms: for Matt, Sally is a woman who "thinks of herself as a human being, not a featherbed": for Sally, Matt is a man who stands outside the narrow-minded doltishness of her family. Their union at the end of Talley's Folly takes place right at the intersection of politics and emotion...