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...with My Wife, You Don't! Triangles are square. But if one is carefully constructed with the right angle of absurdity and a base line of chatter, it can occasionally make intriguing trigonometry. The angle in this picture, as it happens, is pretty obtuse: the Air Farce, according to the script, is a gland-based gang of joystick jockeys who do almost nothing but make low-level attacks on garters of opportunity. As a result, the triangle in this picture is anything but acute. But it's cute, real cute...
WRKO-FM sounds like an ideal station, but alas, its system too, has flaws. Each song's impact is weakened by its propinquity to the next. Disc jockey chatter, for all its inanity, is a background that sets up each song. A more significant quibble is WRKO's small playlist. It sticks with already established hits, devoting almost half its air time to the Top 10, which often for instance this week is a collection of the songs one least wants to hear...
...pelted the turrets of Wormwood Scrubs as the 320 prisoners of D block began their nightly "free-association period." Inmates gathered in the block's communal hall to watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching...
...there is more general concern about "total relationship" between parent and child. Sometimes the children themselves become ardent pop-psychers. "No one is more adept than a child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother or sister. But adolescent psychologizing is in the main an intellectual exercise that only goes skin-deep...
...male cast, headed by Tenor Andrea Velis as the madwoman, masterfully performed Britten's difficult, often eerie sing-speech style of vocal writing. The score was as delicate and intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...