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RICHARD NIXON has really gone off the deep end. In a new play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, he spends his time in his study talking into a tape-recorder, defending his career before an imaginary judge. He claims that the multi-millionaires of California's Bohemian Grove--the real rulers of America's industry and military--put him in the presidency. He didn't really want to continue war in Vietnam or get involved in the Chilean counter-revolution, but rather those filthy moneymongers forced him to. Finally, sick of prostituting himself and his country, he resolved...
...this information about this former president ought to be intriguing and provocative. But Secret Honor: Nixon's Last Tape is baffling and boring; a self-indulgent, sophomoric parody of a political figure who was actually very complex. The play's concept is amusing, but its unstructured, hour-and-40-minute monologue without intermission is sleep-inducing. Besides, Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) drops names and scandals in such an incoherent jumble that only someone minutely familiar with his career can grasp what is going on. Mixing facts and falsehood, he'll jump from the topic of Watergate to his first grammar...
...humiliating light possible and mock him; theirs is the mentality of postcards that show a bald Reagan in nothing but his sweatsocks. At the beginning of the play, Nixon spends 10 inept minutes hemming and hawing the words "Testing: one, two, three...uh...uh...four," while fumbling with a tape that keeps blasting out the Goldberg variations. Nostalgically, he reminisces about all the dopey things he loved to do as President. These memories include sitting at his desk "with the fireplace running and the air-conditioning on" and inviting over Redskins stars on the white phone while discussing bombing Cuba...
...marble-floored palace of technology. Two control rooms, one with a wall of 70 flickering TV monitors, relay pictures from rinks and slopes around the city. In addition, there are ten editing cubicles and 36 Ampex VTR-30 videotape machines, which can play three hours of tape, then rewind it in 90 seconds. Snaking through the building are 150 miles of cable. Designed and constructed in Los Angeles, the center was disassembled and shipped to New York City, reassembled and tested in a warehouse for what ABC dubbed a "war games" dress rehearsal, then disassembled again and shipped by boat...
...hockey at Princeton (tape delay broadcast over WHRB immediately following basketball...