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...Italian politics. But if he has a sincere attitude (and in the introductory note he claims to be giving "free rein to the sincerity of my imagination") the message is lost in a sarcasm as confusing as the shifting allegiances of the political situation it mocks. The overtly cardboard characters of the book fight battles that are all sham; the only thing left dead onstage is belief. Laughing at this skeptical satire is too easy an escape from the complex problems of reality, too condescending a way to refuse to take Italy seriously. Politics is not opera...
...simple. Any good comedian can lead an audience by the nose. But only in the direction they're going. And that direction is, quite simply, escape." The two who follow Challenon's advice win. The boy (Kenneth Cranham) who goes into a brilliantly pantomimed rage against two cardboard effigies of the middle class loses. What he epitomizes is about as funny as death, the price a British Lenny Bruce might have to pay for acceptance. T.E. Kalem
...approximately 3:05, 160 handshakes, five kisses and six backpats later, with a complimentary set of Monopoly still wrapped in shiny plastic under his arm, Carter emerged from the Parker Brothers factory with no incidents and even one cardboard sign of support to his credit...
EVEN THE PHYSICAL make-up of a chapbook suggests that whatever it is getting at hasn't found its true from yet. Neither a paperback nor a resolutely bound hard-cover edition, it consists of a few pages, with an occasional misspelled word, tucked stiffly into a cardboard cover and secured by staples along the slender crease. It's a trial publication without the slick veneer that cajoles you into buying a book on sight...
Yesterday morning Bic's finally posted its sign, though perhaps not precisely as the judge envisioned. A small cardboard poster whispers that "All ice cream sold in this store in made by Brigham." But the sign is swamped by two blackboards and another sign that denounces, with a hundred-word essay in multi-colored chalks and inks, Steve's and other competitors. The overall message of the display seems to be--Jeff Lessard does not apologize...