Word: bugaboos
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...along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment, to his "glory"-a favorite Warren word. Truly "Westward and fabulous," the painter's vision is shadowed only by the poet's darkly romantic hindsight on what was to follow: the Civil War and that other bugaboo of the Southern soul, industrialization...
Race so disposed of, Terrence McNally's Noon then proceeds to burlesque our other national bugaboo-sex, McNally's contribution brings together a variety of sexual perverts (and, in all honesty, some who are not so perverted). all of whom are responding to a series of titillating newspaper classifieds. The evening's most straight-forward stretch of comedy. it is probably also the evening's most entertaining bit. From Eric Davin's fag to Sharon Klurifs orgy-bent Flushing housewife, the cast spends much of its time variously undressed but never disconcerted. (Save that role for the audience...
...Double Bugaboo. Thus in one day the ideological furniture on the minority side was considerably rearranged. Both Scott and Griffin represent industrial states with large labor, urban, black and ethnic constituencies. Neither, of course, is anything like a social radical, and both have voted often enough for conservative causes. Scott and Griffin supported the President on the ABM. Last year Griffin led the Senate fight against Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Both Senators have generally subscribed to the President's Viet Nam policies, although Scott has been anxious for accelerated troop withdrawals. Both Scott and Griffin...
...Baker came to the Hill only in 1967, after he was elected Senator. Another element favoring Scott was the fact that his elevation would leave open the whip's post, which was coveted by several of his colleagues. "I got hit," said Baker afterward, "by a double bugaboo-the seniority system and the proliferation of whip candidates." Scott won by 24 to 19-the precise vote he had predicted...
...course, if the director, Louis Criss, should require any defense, he need only point to no less a name than Emerson--consistency is the bugaboo of little minds, and Criss will have none of it. He always keeps the pace moving fast (this is one three-hour Loeb production that doesn't drag), sometimes too fast (the ending, particularly, is quite confusing), while all the time throwing in lets of contemporary asides. I could quibble over whether many of the adlibs should have been included. (Mentioning Bristol, Disneyland, and Somerville in the same line doesn't strike me as particularly...