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...fill their roles with 18th century gusto. Teresa Toulouse, for example, combines the vengefulness of Gilbert and Sullivan's jilted Katisha with the coarse bumptiousness of Eliza the Flower Girl in her characterization of Lucy Lockit, Polly Peachum's rival for the love of the unfaithful highwayman Macheath. Joanna Blum as Mrs. Peachum also plays her role to the hit. Unscrupulous and unmarried, she jerks around the stage, hands on hips, spitting out cynical asides to the audience...
...Jersey Receptionist Marlene Blum was not amused. Seven fellow employees at North Jersey Lithographers had hired one of those professional pie-throwing agencies to hit Mrs. Blum with one of their confections last May. Mrs. Blum hit back, pressing charges against the two pie pitchers, who pleaded guilty to assault and were fined $50 each. The pie-galled Mrs. Blum also brought a civil suit claiming she suffered a burning sensation in her eyes, had to quit her job and became so nervous she had to see a psychiatrist. Now the seven jokesters have agreed...
...Blitz. In detailing the charges, the Justice Department named seven AMREP officers and directors, including Chairman Irving Blum, 73, President Howard Friedman, 50, his brother Daniel, 40, and Chester Carity, 50, an AMREP executive vice president. In response, the indicted firm has launched a p.r. blitz protesting its innocence. AMREP officials complain that the charges are "immoral and unjust." They insist that they have spent more than $34 million improving the land...
...narrator of Group Portrait admitted that he was a persona from the beginning, stated plainly that he was "the Au." and not some imperious ego-less reporter. The Au. said candidly that he was too fond of Leni; while the poor, nameless narrator in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum repressed all affection for his heroine, denied his own "psyche" until he broke with exasperation at the way his story had eluded his control on page 98 ("Too much is happening in this story"). One would rather trust the unashamed lust of the Au. for his main character which finally...
...sentimental devotee of Leni. The facts are what he is after, he tells us, but he is confused. It all begins clearly enough; each chapter is so short as to contain just a few positive assertions of facts in the case, and it is established that Katharina Blum, at the beginning of these five days, slept with a man who was wanted for murder. Duly it is stated, too, that under police interrogation, Katherina shows herself to have been ignorant of her lover's legal status. But from then until Katherina's murder of the newspaperman who has hounded...