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...Brash and Incisive. At first sight, it does not look like a theater at all. Johansen designed it in terms of distinct units-blocks of raw concrete with brightly painted steel cladding, connected by tubes and catwalks. Nothing could be more remote from the idiom of the theater as temple-massive portico and formidable foyer suggesting, in the manner of Lincoln Center, that the audience is going to be vouchsafed a peek at the altar of some crushing god named High Culture. The Mummers Theater, by contrast, with its simple materials and modest scale, does not try to stimulate...
...near by, a self-service restaurant was turning out $2.25 dinners of shrimp, steak and pie. Members who were not exhausted from a day at the beach or sports could swim in the 50-meter pool, enjoy a sauna, or play pool, darts or table tennis. The architecture is brash, the décor early TWA, the tone matey and the turnover tremendous. The income from the slot machines pays the mortgages and keeps the costs down...
...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...
...sensational career as a prosecuting attorney in 1940, he sought the Republican nomination. Dewey stumped the nation, headed into the Philadelphia convention as the favorite. But no one had ever leaped from D.A. to presidential candidate, and the party's old pros could not accept the brash, young (38) Eastern upstart. They turned instead to an older, more personable novice: Indiana's Wendell Willkie...
...Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style murders have been luridly updated to include quite nasty details of sexual mutilation. As was the case with The Anderson Tapes last year, the book is just seedy enough to seem realistic and just brash enough to hold common sense at bay for 200 pages. For most addicts that is enough. The publisher's promotion department thoughtfully circulated-as a teaser ad in New York papers-the supposed number (212-679-2730) of the murderer. More than 115,000 gullible people tried to phone...