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Playwright Steve Tesich, 33, has attempted to use one man, Maxim Gorky, as the mirror of a homeland, Russia, undergoing radical social change. But it is more complicated than that. First of all, there are three Gorkys simultaneously onstage, a romantic boy (John Gallogly), an idealistic young man (Douglas Clark) and an old and skeptical observer (Philip Baker Hall) who is still deeply moved by the plight of the Russian people...
...CALL ALL these old cartoons mere nostalgia pieces is to deny that old ladies still might comment to each other "I love driving. It gives me such a sense of power," as they did in an early 40s Helen Hokinson; that a young woman might peek into a mirror and say to her reflection "Boo! You pretty creature" as in a late 20s Peter Arno; or that these situations might strike a responsive chord in any of our lives...
...PRESIDENT NIXON'S Air Force One plane, The Spirit of '76, (beautifully decorated, well stocked with food and liquors, with a cosmetic mirror in the First Lady's compartment) all cigarettes are specially packaged and marked "Spirit of '76." At Camp David, cigarette packages with the Camp David seal fascinate Maureen Dean and she collects them. She wanders through Watergate like an economy tourist on a city-a-day vacation. She gloats over the limousines that pick her up at every airport ("It's the only way to travel.") and is haunted by the fear that another woman might...
...than it is the story of those troubled times. It is the story of a romance that Maureen Dean knew was fated to occur from the moment she met the "Brooks Brothers" tan; a romance that began with this message, scrawled in lipstick by Dean on a motel room mirror: "Smile...an owl loves ya, loves ya, yes, loves...
...conclude that Air Force One and the marvelous technology that sends it round the globe have become a kind of a presidential hobby, replacing the medicine ball (Hoover) and the stamp collection (F.D.R.). Crew members lather that beautiful plane with Glass Wax before a trip, polish it to a mirror finish with compressed-air buffers and add tire black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come up on top in the proper order...