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ONLY THOSE PEOPLE who have never heard of or listened to these two British comedy acts can hope to derive any kind of enjoyment from Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe. For the rest of us, sitting through this 90-minute waste of celluloid is akin to viewing a series of old Johnny Carson monologues strung together; you know exactly what's coming, and the pleasure lies exclusively in the anticipation, not in the misbegotten result. However, in all fairness to the individuals responsible for this film, they certainly knew what they were doing. Towards the end of Monty Python...
...every student's education. Meanwhile a measure of comfort may be on the way for teachers oppressed by too close encounters with abusive youngsters. UCLA Psychiatrist Alfred Bloch, in a study released last March, found that 250 battered teachers from inner-city Los Angeles schools evinced nervous symptoms akin to "combat neurosis." Now the American Federation of Teachers is offering a special program for them. Worn-down teachers in various cities meet to discuss strategy and vent their frustration. No verbal or physical abuse allowed...
...surprising considering that the costume designers in Close Encounters only had to design one other-wordly creature. Besides not wearing space suits--a definite faux pas--the aliens in this film are greenish, long-necked, pot-bellied, leathery-skinned, and have gaping mouths, which makes the creatures look boringly akin to Martians...
...reader unfamiliar with Beckett's frame of mind and uninitiated to his subject matter reading his poetry would be akin to being hit over the head with a sledge hammer; that is, you wouldn't know what hit you but you'd know for damn sure it hit hard. The effect of Beckett's poems upon the first-time reader is one of power even if one doesn't understand what the subject matter is or what Beckett is trying...
...subversion of that relationship by the jargon of today") are "beyond considerations of who can find what kind of happiness when..." His approach is highly intellectualized rather than that of a "How-to" type guide. It is rarely pedantic, though, barbed as it is by a wit akin to stainless steel wire, brilliant and deadly. His delineation of the organizations and charlatans that have cashed in on a society's introspection is cruelly exact...