Word: bastardly
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...Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears on the scene...
...love, a male universe, and possibly George Washington's birthday. The husband is comforted neither by apples, affluence, martinis, the Democrats, nor a dead God. The partners turn inward-defeated by teenyboppers, Red China, polluted air, Kinsey's statistics, retreating hairlines, wash day, the office bastard, a pot-smoking son, Leda's swan, the snows of yesteryear. They devour each other and emerge as One, shrieking. It is better to have loved and flipped than never to have loved...
...Pudding show, by definition, allows for and even capitalizes on its numerous shortcomings. Only when the proceedings stop is it in trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self-conscious counterpoint of the "Like You Like It" reprise; the weak, semi-serious ballad, "Is It Really Me"; and the tedious choreography of Pan's Dance, which wastes the considerable talents of Director Wilson and dancer Ron Porter...
...Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest damn funeral Kansas City has ever seen. They'll all show up to be sure the old bastard is dead"; of heart disease; in Kansas City...
...flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips and invites him to "do the thing" right there and then, and never mind the other passengers. When he refuses, she leaps to her feet and screams: "You middle-class black bastard, you liver-lipped white man, Uncle Tom Big Lip!" In a black rage, he slugs her and then vomits all over the subway car his lifelong bellyful of hatred against the white man and all his works. When he subsides, the dame stabs him dead...