Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rock concerts. Or it may simply be that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience. "If you go to a comedy play, a certain amount of time is lost setting up the plot or characters," notes Bert Haas, general manager of Zanies, a Chicago-based comedy-club chain. "In the stand- up comedy room, you get three or four laughs in one minute. It's like a shot of adrenaline...
...Bert (Emery Battis) and Theresa (Kim Hunter) are elderly lovers who first met at the graveyard where each mourns a son. Near the opening of the play we see them picnicking on a graveyard bench discussing their future...
Both have to deal with recalcitrant offspring. Bert's son Victor (Ross Bickell) is a policeman who, since the death of his brother, has been trying to convince everyone who cares about him that he's a "non-thinking fascist thug...
...COURSE of Bert and Theresa's love affair is interrupted by the violent events going on around them. The play, however, fails to explore the ramifications of those events; it merely takes note of them. It's impossible to doubt Reid's sincerity but hard not to notice his lack of intensity...
...Nixon sacrifice Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He found the courage to tell each of them face to face in tearful meetings at Camp David that they must resign. Then he praised them publicly as "two of the finest public servants" he had ever known. Jimmy Carter defended Bert Lance as innocent of shady banking practices and brushed off advice that he ask his longtime friend to leave his post as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I could not bring myself to do it," Carter later explained. When Lance finally resigned, Carter endured a scolding from...