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``ALLERGIST'S WIFE'' IS FINE THEATER WITH A FEW GOOD LAUGHS THROWN IN.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20030327
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Byline: MAL VINCENT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

WHEN WE meet Marjorie Taub, an upper-middle-class Jewish housewife in New York City, she is mourning the death of her therapist. She's also bored with her seemingly idyllic marriage and hasn't been able to write the novel she thinks is somewhere inside.

In quoting Kafka, she feels she is ``a cage looking for a bird.'' She quotes everyone from Flaubert to Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse and the formidable Soren Kierkegaard in her pretensions to art. ``Never have I had an organized thought,'' she confesses as she reveals her breakdown at a ...

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