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...group make an effective transition from the light and silly first act to the whiny and petulant second act. But I feel sorry for Molly Hoagland, who has to stand erect and keep a straight face while Trig Tarazi hides and busies himself beneath her skirt, and for Celia Wren, who has to deliver a somber soliloquy about how, as a middle-aged divorcee, she rediscovered masturbation...
...give this much to the Luftwaffe," the Prince said at the annual dinner of the Corporation of London Planning and Communications Committee. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that." Worst of all, he complained, Sir Christopher Wren's majestic St. Paul's Cathedral has been overshadowed by a jumble of ugly office buildings. "In the space of a mere 15 years, in the '60s and '70s, your predecessors as the planners, architects and developers wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St. Paul...
...sophistication. Yet the Prince had a point. Architecturally, the capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach...
...Beatrice literally shuts out the world and takes out her despair on those who cannot escape her, her daughters and the invalids. Ruth (Robyn Fass) tries to escape her stifling influence by flirting with the boys at school, and Tillie, the younger daughter (Celia Wren) absorbs herself in the marvelous power of the atom, (or as she pointedly pronounces it--"a-tum") which becomes a metaphor for the potency of human relationships...
Unfortunately, Fass and Wren seem to detach themselves from this love-hate relationship--and distance the audience at the same time...