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...presidential running mate in 1984, and New York City comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman are veteran politicians who need no introduction to voters. Yet their rivalry has stirred deep divisions among progressive women who seemingly cannot stomach the thought of two women competing for the same office. Holtzman finds the quandary absurd, particularly since she and Ferraro stand far apart on certain issues. Ferraro, for example, backs the death penalty, while Holtzman opposes it. "Women are capable of making a distinction between two women, and have been from time immemorial," she says. Ferraro quite agrees. "Tell those women to start acting like...
Among the actors, Charles Weinstein stands out for his ebullient portrayal of Robert Sideway, the convicted pickpocket who dreams of Drury Lane. With his absurd Tragedian posturing--he imagines himself to be a second Garrick--and the flourishes of his beloved white handkerchief (that indispensable possession of the true gentleman), he becomes the star, not only of The Recruiting Officer, but also of Our Country's Good...
...fact that voters still demand these virtues in a leader is a confession, however backhanded, that they respect the very values they violate in their own lives. The situation thus created is both salutary and absurd. And, for the candidates, more than a little cruel. Still, they have only themselves to blame. No one forced them to campaign for the favor of a nation of hypocrites...
...showiest role, Roscoe Lee Browne plays the neighborhood wise man. He - has reached age 65 by staying out of other people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded and admirable. It is such affectionate ambivalence toward all the characters that makes Wilson's play a vivid and uplifting tone poem and never a mere polemic. W.A.H.III
TRAVEL WRITERS DO YOUR TRAVELING for you, crime writers do your murdering for % you, and food writers eat lavishly at absurd expense so that you need not bother. Such a deal -- but hark! Novelist Haughton Murphy does all this and is funny in the bargain. His hero is an elderly, retired lawyer named Reuben Frost, who keeps getting into other people's trouble. In this seventh outing in the series, A VERY VENETIAN MURDER (Simon & Schuster; $19), Frost and his wife Cynthia are taking their ease in Venice when someone murders an American dress designer. The soft-boiled detective...