Word: busybodyness
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Against which everyone bravely, touchingly, builds his or her none-too- sturdy defenses. Mack, in fact, turns into a benign busybody, trying to pat almost all the lives that touch his into shape. His work comes out a little too neatly, but Kline's performance, like all the others, is...
The busybody and the crybaby are getting to be the most conspicuous children on the American playground.
The busybody is the bully with the ayatullah shine in his eyes, gauleiter of correctness, who barges around telling the other kids that they cannot smoke, be fat, drink booze, wear furs, eat meat or otherwise nonconform to the new tribal rules now taking shape.
Each approach, that of busybody or crybaby, is selfish, and each poisons the sense of common cause. The sheer stupidity of each seeps into public discourse and politics. Idiot in the original Greek meant someone who cared nothing for issues of public life. The pollster Peter Hart asked some young...
The playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, 51, is represented in the West End by a new play, Man of the Moment, and a stunning revival, Absurd Person Singular, and at his regional theater in Scarborough by yet another debut, Body Language. All three are characteristically bleak and acidulous comedies staged by the...