Word: bullshits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older brother of one of the Kingsmen suggested that the group dress 50's style for the concert and, without telling the group, distributed handbills which read, "So you think you're an Ivy Leaguer? Bullshit. Underneath your button-down shirt is the eighth grade greaser standing on the corner, whistling 'Duke of Earl' to yourself and watching the girls go by. Come down to Ferris Booth Hall where the Kingsmen will be reliving the old days. Come dressed...
...sort of like the coffeehouses in...A-u-s-t-r-i-a," his voice drifted quixotically, "when Freud and Jung used to sit around and... bullshit. Drink coffee. That's where baseball's heading...
...pile into a car, go down to the highway somewhere and eat dinner. Then a lot of the guys who were 17 and 18 would go into town and try to sneak into bars. But I was usually content just to sit around and bullshit; and crash out around nine...
...marginal existence. Donny spends the opening minutes of the play expounding his philosophy of life and business to Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this maxim, finding it distasteful, perhaps, but true. Burney lends an air of realism to his character; his Bonny is like thousands of backstreets city kids...
Loosely entwined with this plot is the story of the complex's maintenance men, all frustrated losers living in their own imaginations. Ed Redlich plays Tobie, an insecure middle-aged man constantly bickering with Dog, Ron Shmyr, a domineering but pathetically inadequate bullshit artist. The goodnatured foreman, Ed, played by Jeff Horwitz, serves as the mediator, reassuring Redlich and pacifying Shmyr, who feels secure with his electrical degree "from the back of a book of matches...