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...take those two demons, young Butt-head and Beavis...
Winning the Pulitzer Prize wasn't enough to sell The Kentucky Cycle on Broadway. The $2.5 million production, one of the costliest plays ever, closed last week after only 34 performances. Hobbled by mixed reviews, the purse- straining (top price: $100), butt-busting (two parts, six hours) epic never found an audience. But Robert Schenkkan's drama still has life: HBO has bought the rights and will do a TV version...
...might say that patheticism stands to notions of high culture (an ever imperiled growth in the United States) rather as the antics of Ren, Stimpy, Beavis, Butt-head and their pals do to those Edwardian gents in four-button ecru linen jackets who are seen contemplating San Miniato in Merchant-Ivory movies. To be a patheticist is to have more or less given up. It is to have made the discovery, always startling to the young, that parents lie, that politicians cheat, that moral authorities are hypocritical, that human society is one big sucking morass of dreck, and that...
When Jay Kim won election, of course many of my acquaintances made cute jokes about my election to Congress. After the series in the Times, I again became the butt of jokes. My colleagues at work served me with a fake subpoena. At a party, a friend made a big show of putting plastic handcuffs on my wrists. And I once again began to get those knowing smiles and astonished looks when I was introduced to strangers...
...Butt sent his men out on an especially long "sweat row" to shed the pounds. One rower passed out at the weigh-in, but the mission was accomplished as everyone cleared. The race afterwards seemed easy...