Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was much about the 1960s that Capp did not like: he made the comic folk of Dogpatch share their panels with radical folk singer Joanie Phoanie and hairy thugs from S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything). Capp gradually alienated his college-age audience, which switched to more congenial strips like Walt Kelly's Pogo and Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Today fewer than 400 papers still carry Li'l Abner. For a while, Capp remained a perverse favorite on the campus lecture circuit. But he became something of a recluse after 1972, when a judge...
...steps on land-and meets his son Idamante. Such subject matter is a problem for 20th century audiences, but not the only one. Idomeneo is written in the style of opera seria, the stilted, ritualistic 18th century Italian counterpart to opera buffa. Even by the time Mozart came of age opera seria was under attack by the reformers...
This drama is set in an old-age home, but one suspects that none of the pensioners are quite so feeble as the play. As dramatic carpentry, The Gin Game is made of balsa wood, while the performances of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy rival the sturdiest oaks. Their artistry is compelling, and they supply the play with, its only bracing vigor...
...lights on Broadway glow a little brighter now that one of the master funnymen of the age is back. When Victor Borge delivers a line, the words seem to selfdestruct. He swallows them between hilariously elongated pauses and then utters small, satisfied, digestive burps. At the grand piano he can make his fingers seem all toes, or wings. The timing is impeccable, the professionalism unflawed. One never knows whether he regards his props - the microphone, the piano, the piano bench - as allies or enemies...
...real film star than did the early moguls. As usual, Russell hammers one over the head with gaudy and excessive cliches of a bygone era's decor. They have a certain visual excitement, but they say more about his own feverish temperament than about the spirit of the age. The use of Rudolf Nureyev for Rudolph Valentino was canny in conception-both men display an animal magnetism that audiences have found irresistible. But Rudy I had a very different appeal from Rudy II; the Valentino swagger was manifestly a device to hide his vulnerability and naiveté. Nureyev...