The Washington Post, May 18th, 1990
About halfway through "In the Spirit," Sandra Seacat's disheveled new comedy, Marianne (Elaine May) and her husband, Roger (Peter Falk), ask their hostess, Reva (Marlo Thomas), whether they might possibly create more space for themselves in the bedroom by removing the giant stuffed panda dressed up like a sheriff. The room, which is done in a Wild West motif, complete with buckin' bronco bunk beds, belonged to her nephew, Reva explains, and moving it might upset him if he decided to return. "But couldn't you tell him it was ... temporary?" Roger pleads. "I could," she says quietly, thinking it...
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