Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he was a boy in Trenton, N.J., Edward Munson fell out of his tree house one day and cut his arm. Apparently the scar was lasting. Now, as building inspector for the rural Long Island town of Riverhead, N.Y., Munson, 53, has started a controversial campaign to make tree houses safer. Recently, after a Riverhead resident complained about an unsightly tree house, Munson began to require parents to obtain tree-house building permits, and issued a detailed set of specifications governing their construction: the houses must be no more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must...
...right to build a tree house and do what he wants with it," retorts a Riverhead housewife, Mrs. Robert Hulse. The Hulses have been threatened with a summons after ignoring two official complaints that their son Gregory's tree house is too close to the street. When another parent, William Sypher, received a notice for building without a permit, his two sons tacked a sign "Bird Feeding Station" on the house and nailed on feed pans-but the ruse failed and the notices kept coming...
...children spend hours playing in it," says Sypher's wife Doris, who is prepared to fight the code in court, if necessary. "They build new things into the tree house to make it over into what ever their imaginations believe it is. How can it meet building specifications when the boys continually change...
...scenes in Portia's Belmont, Ed Wittstein has designed an outdoor garden setting dominated by an enormous tree branch with leaves of -- you guessed it -- gold. Portia appears in a peach gown (designed, like all the other costumes, by Jose Varona) and carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia...
...characters, and holds the work together. For this, Jerry Dodge is unflaggingly admirable. When he says, "And here the maiden, sleeping sound,/ On the dank and dirty ground," his way of dropping vocal pitch on the second line is hilarious. He darts about like lightning, and scampers up a tree as easily as a cat. Indeed, at the core of his performance are postures, gestures, and movements drawn from classical ballet. Although he is understandably not in a class with Arthur Mitchell, who is so extraordinary a Puck in the ballet version of the tale, he is still a splendidly...