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...BEGINNING of Talley's Folly, it looks like Lanford Wilson has set out to illustrate a most commonplace idea: that opposites attract. The two characters that comprise his cast start at the antipodes of American society. Matt Friedman is a Lithuanian Jewish accountant, gray suit, beard and wire glasses, Mittel-European accent and Henny Youngman-style jokes. Sally Talley springs from a factory-owning Ozark tamily, works as a nurse in an army hospital (it's 1944) and has a jaw locked as tight as a cashbox. The two are not a very probable couple...
...Talley's folly" is a dilapidated boathouse, built by one of Sally's forebears. It is the scene for the two-hour confrontation between Matt and Sally that constitutes Wilson's play: they had had a brief affair the vear before and Matt has returned for one last attempt to win Sally from the arms of her bigoted family. The boathouse is also, in itself, a bizarrc extravagance; in Michael Anania's set design, it looks like a broken-down Baroque cathedral of navy-grey latticework, paint peeling and planks rotting. The "folly" folds its arms around the encounter between...
That conflict begins simply: Matt wants Sally to come away with him, and Sally wants Matt to leave alone. But as Wilson's smoothly polished conversational writing advances, with plenty of one-liners and an occasional sight gag. Talley's Folly turns from a straightforward romantic sit-com into a much more sensitive character evocation. Like a stripped-down Ibsen drama, it forces its two characters to excavate the most airless tunnels of their memories...
...FREESTYLE 1) Gaines, Ambrose Pool Record Auburn 1:33 91 2) Larton, David Florida 1:36 33 3) Cavanaugh, Chrts U.S.C. 1:36 48 100-yd. BUTTERFLY 1) Spann, Scott American Record Texas 0:47 22 2) Arvidssom, Par California 0:47 39 3) Gribbie, Matt Miami 0:47 54 100-yd. BACKSTROKE 1) Britt, Clay American Record Texas 0:49 06 2) Flemons, Wade Stanford 0:49 25 3) Fowler, James U.S.C. 0:49 86 100-yd. BREASTSTROKE 1) Lundquist, Steve American Record S M U 0:52 93 2) Barrett, William U.C.L.A. 0:54 08 3) Higginson, Greg...
...Crimson had started off fast and seized the lead, but the strong Yale (5:47.9) and Washington (5:44.8) boats were never very far behind. Moreover, the Crimson lost valuable ground when Matt Arrott had trouble with his foot stretcher, causing the boat to slow down...