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Mounted police moved in to signal that the demonstration was over. They were astride dapple-grey horses, the same stalwart breed that the Cossacks had used to run down street mobs with nagaika and saber in czarist days. 'Suddenly the scene dissolved into chaos, and photos taken by Western journalists provided a dramatic record of the astounding proceedings. This was. after all, the first time since June 1918 that a Moscow riot had to be put down by force. The cops let fly with whip and truncheon. Screaming "Fascists!" at the militia, the mob fought back with rocks, bricks...
...Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single, obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inability of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. Where Naughton and a comic wonder of a cast succeed is in bringing back the theater's vanishing breed-real people...
...Good Time, by Bill Naughton. People are a vanishing breed in the theater. Playwrights seem to know all about clinical freaks, but little of human beings. England's Bill Naughton is a cheering exception. All in Good Time makes a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single obvious and quaint-sounding joke, the inability of a pair of young English provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage...
...whose quizzical smile masks an imperious and demanding intelligence, and who as much as any other Russian is credited by the West with initiating Russia's great debate. A stocky Ukrainian with a quick and witty command of English, Liberman is typical of Russia's new breed that has used the freedom of the post-Stalin era to correspond with and receive Western economists, is as at home in Moscow's ministries as conducting a postgraduate seminar...
...scorn; beyond alienation to the assertion of the individual; beyond the" absurd to laughter at absurdity. At its worst, their laughter can be shrill, silly, or self-indulgent. It has yet to blow down Jericho, let alone the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the best of the new breed, writers like Barth and Donleavy, it is the work still in their typewriters that will determine their ultimate standing. Meanwhile they are delighting many a reader who can unsettle down with a good book...