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...know that when Mr. Coors arrives Wednesday to speak at the Science Center he will be prepared to tell some clever lies about his company and those who oppose its practices. But if Harvard students want to maintain possession of the moral high ground they earn by protesting such villainous characters, they will have to make sure that their protests do not get out of hand. In an open community it is simply unacceptable to curtail the freedom of speech of any speaker, unless he is trying to incite violence through his remarks...
...science fiction, so I set the plot in the future, 10 years after a peaceful takeover of the Soviet Union by an American--i.e., me. As I wrote, churning out page after page of dialogue, I was surprised by my own inventiveness. The plot was so unique and so clever that I was forced to surmise the world had never seen its like before...
...white scrim is blown by a wind machine, representing the white wall of a terrific blizzard. A shrill voice booms through the P.A. system, then--Riiiip!--Frau von Kessel (Elizabeth Franz) and her servant tear the scrim and stick their torsos through it. It's supposed to look clever and mysterious, these two figures popping out of the waving whiteness, but it's just a cheap and cosmetic stunt...
From time to time a good idea or clever dramatic conflict appears in Sweettable. But just as the audience starts to get interested, the moment is mercilessly crushed beneath the heel of Ribman's pompous phrasing and erratic characterization. This play is bad in a painful way, as it time and again raises your expectation that something worthwhile is about to happen, then disappoints you by dropping the theme or hiding behind a convenient cliche. The wasted talents of the director, cast, designers and crew make the spectacle all the more pitiful. Sweettable never bores you; it just makes...
Amazingly, Rockin' does seem to contain most of the essential (and extremely danceable) Edmunds canon, from his first hit, "I Hear You Knocking"--hence the clever album title--to his hits with Rockpile (his acclaimed 1980 collaboration with Lowe) to his synthesizer era. As a result, there are few surprises on this album, in terms of its choice of songs and their journeyman renditions...