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...earlier word was "quality," whose utterance was meant to mark off a given artwork from the swarm of others and confirm the precision of a collector's taste. Interesting has the opposite effect. It suspends judgment, covers the rear, and defends the vacuum-cleaner habits of a cultural mass market without precedent in art history. It states, with a sort of coy defiance, that buying this, uh, thang may not be a mistake, even though its owner does not know what to say about it. It acknowledges that by the time thoughtful aesthetic judgment is passed -- a distant prospect, given...
...show at the same theater last year, this is the first time on the boards for Gifford. No matter: his football experience comes in handy. As the built-for-comfort Meredith scatters ashes across the stage, the built-for-speed Gifford does end runs with a vacuum cleaner. Meredith calls it typecasting: "There's a lot more of Felix in Gifford than there is in me. He hurts easily." Anyway, says Meredith, "he's so cute in his little apron...
...achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started in regional theaters and seems likely to become a standard there, deserves its place on Broadway. It is gentle, thoughtful, slightly old-fashioned and much cleaner than the back of Huckleberry's perennially unwashed neck...
...woman, who lives on the fourth floor, also said she is annoyed that she will have to walk all the way downstairs to get rid of her trash. As a result, she predicts that "the hallway might be cleaner, but the room will...
...Hara was crawling on a rooftop when he looked down and noticed that he had rolled in something very much like cat shit, making the rest of the night shift seem days long. He was wearing his galoshes now, waiting for his dress shoes to come back from the cleaner...