Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Anne Walsh as Maddie faces a tougher challenge in fleshing out Stoppard's lightly sketched drawing of this bashful yet forthright, dimwitted yet wise "woman of the people." This character is difficult to play because Stoppard uses it as both a center-spring for the plot and as a mouthpiece for his moralizing, and the two are at odds. Walsh succeeds only half-way: her sluttish, gum-chewing, boneheaded secretary is so convincing that when she starts to write the parliamentary committee's draft report, you feel the words are coming from Stoppard--because you know they couldn't come...
...girls to work in her brothel, where they lure Occidental sailors to their doom. The Depression was racist as well as naive, in the view Dames at Sea presents, and the former attribute is not particularly laughable. After the Asian-American Association protested a similarly offensive stereotype in last spring's Pudding Show, it is astonishing that the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, which oversaw the production of Dames at Sea, did not cut this sequence, which is as irrelevant to the plot as it is unpleasant...
...tasks of the specialty units are thankless. Sprinting headlong down the field to make bone-jarring tackles on kick returns, trying to spring for a long gainer on a return, trotting onto the turf to boot what everyone assumes to be an automatic point after touchdown, punting the ball in gray New England--these are not the things that make the headlines...
...hurry! Questions must be received by midnight December 1, 1980. Cheech & Chong won't answer the questions until next spring, after they've finished the aforementioned Columbia Project, but our Quizmaster needs the time to learn to read. Don't forget to include your name and address with the question; only one question per person, please...
White hammered hard at Clinton for raising gasoline taxes and automobile registration fees. A budget-paring conservative, he promised to cut back the fees and reduce the number of state employees. White also attacked Clinton for the White House decision to house Cuban refugees at Fort Chaffee, Ark., last spring, though Clinton himself berated the Administration for its handling of the influx. What nudged White over the top, however, was the vote-pulling strength of Reagan. In a deeply Democratic state, he battled Jimmy Carter to a draw...