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Bartering personal privacy to sell the Angels could be laughed off as tacky but clever; but Sliwa's antics in Atlanta were a different story. As the nation helplessly watched authorities try to catch the murderer of Black children in Atlanta. Sliwa joined the various psychics, bloodhound-owners and other publicity-seekers who publicly announced they would lend a hand to the investigators. Never mind that the Angels were not an investigative unit: they would start a chapter in Atlanta. The incident was especially distasteful because Atlanta residents, almost numb with grief, had already formed citizen patrol groups...
Morreau turns Marie's mother (Edith Clever) into a sexually one dimensional character; the only purpose her presence serves is to have passionate interludes with her husband and with the doctor...
...today's economy, $98,908 is not a princely sum for supervising more than 6,000 police officers. New York and Chicago are clever to get away with paying their chief cops so little...
...success of Pippin is basically proportional to the amount of time the Leading Player stays on stage. When the musical is at its most stylized, it works best. In numbers like "War is a Science." "Simple Joys," or "On the Right Track," the music sparkles, the lyrics are clever, and the staging is amusingly effective. It's when it strives for simplicity and sincerity that Pippin falls a little short. Songs like "Corner of the Sky" the leitmotiv for the whole musical, are just a little bland...
...begins is actually part of the cast. Only with the arrival of Birdboot, clad in yellow, green and plaid and munching on chocolates, does the audience get its first hint that something unusual is afoot. The pair discusses Higgs, the first-string, and launches us into a fast-paced, clever hour-and-a-half's entertainment which only occasionally verges on the flip...