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...formula, after two endless evenings, is clear: two dreary, realistic plays followed by a crowd-pleasing cartoon. One might feel sympathy if these were unknown, generally unproduced playwrights, but few of them are. (In the next program we'll see plays by David Mamet and actor Cliff Robertson.) This smacks of cowardice: the APS might have attracted a devoted following if it had produced good or at least ambitious plays by unknown playwrights rather than the poor scraps of the well-known. If artistic director Tom Bloom knows how bad two-thirds of these plays are but decided he needed...
...Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...
...Years of Animation--"Tex Avery: Cartoon King," Thursday at 6, 8 and 10 p.m.; "The Puppetmasters," Friday at 6, 8 and 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m., Monday at 6 and 8 p.m. and Tuesday at 6, 8 and 10 p.m.; "The Cartoon Revolution," Wednesday at 6, 8 and 10 p.m.; Off the Wal Cinema, 15 Pearl...
There is something enormously appealing about these exercises. They elicit the same awe and pleasure as the discovery of NINA's in a Hirschfeld cartoon, or the realization that Bow and Arrow Streets in Cambridge describe the shapes they form. There's nothing to solve in Inversions--no clues to disentangle or mazes to penetrate. The satisfaction of Kim's "inversions" comes from finding new significance and new wit in the seemingly commonplace...
Pull-back #1; Brattle--Seated next to the three is an old man. He watches the cartoon uninterestedly. Suddenly he turns to the woman in the windbreaker and says; "Fuck you anyway," and then walks down the aisle. This would not have happened...