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...crowd appealed for a penalty kick, but referee Reta Brown continued to pursue her laissez-faire policy and refused to blow the whistle...
These missives occasionally show federal officials urging their superiors to favor donor executives. In one letter, Reta Lewis, a political affairs official at the White House, urges that a spot be found for Gerald McGowan, a partner in a Washington law firm, on a trade mission to Indonesia or India. For one thing, Lewis points out, McGowan qualifies as a D.N.C. "managing trustee," someone who gives $100,000 a year to the Democratic National Committee...
Greyhound is as much a part of rural economic life as the local filling station or coffee shop. Businesses use buses to ship packages and other small freight that truckers will not handle. "Flower boxes aren't the right size for UPS," frets Main Street florist Reta Zollars, who has been getting fresh flowers via Greyhound for 15 years. For now, at least, her business is safe. Company management has frantically patched together its Los Angeles-Bishop route by chartering buses from other lines to fill in the schedule...
...Director Reta Diekman wisely imposes little on these elements. Lynn Jeffries' sparse sets--just a bed in one scene, a table and candlestick in another, two benches in the third--typify the laissez-faire approach that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest...
...Eddie Foy, Jr., charged with providing much of the comedy, does well indeed when he doesn't reach too far into burlesque for his material. And since--with Mae Barnes turning the tide for By the Beautiful Sea-- this looks like a big year for fat women on Broadway, Reta Shaw is on hand to bolster numbers like "I'll Never Be Jealous Again...