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...Clever but virulent wordplay abounded. "I don't wanna be your lover--I just wanna be your victim," Elvis sputtered in his souped-up homage to whacking-off that he not-so-subtly dubbed "The Beat." And he bragged in "Lipstick Vogue," "Sometimes I almost feel...just like a human bein...
...veto is that funding for military personnel runs out on Aug. 31. "It would be unfortunate in the extreme not to be able to pay the Marines we just sent to Beirut," deadpanned a senior presidential aide. In fact, however, the payroll will be met by a clever but controversial juggling of the books that will postpone the Pentagon's payment of income withholding and Social Security taxes. The White House hopes that when Congress reconvenes, it will pass a revised bill authorizing the requested funds for the military and for Caribbean...
...Labor Day Concert and Fireworks," the latest in a long line of personalized events. In this advertising campaign, even the city's name is sometimes omitted, as in "Precinct Headquarters, Jane M. Byrne, Mayor." Said an almost admiring official of the Better Government Association: "She's fiendishly clever." Maybe. Windy City residents, well aware of whose taxes are paying for all this publicity, have wryly proposed some additional labels. The Chicago Sun-Times last month pointedly called a scheduled tax installment "Mayor Byrne's Real Estate...
Director Edward Stone has set a frenetic pace that jams to a halt, like traffic in a rush-hour gridlock, whenever the entire eight-actor ensemble crowds onto the stage. The performances, though a bit broad for so intimate a space, are clever: Mara Beckerman is just irksome enough as the naive heroine, Alan Brasington swishily grand as her abductor, and Merle Louise, Polly Pen and especially Emcee Michael McCormick polished and persuasive as show-must-go-on troupers. The music hall genre may be dead, but Charlotte Sweet is an amiable, spirited resurrection...
...show Audrey Jr. is Audrey II, and at the outset is a tiny terror: Pac-Man's mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops the stage and (gasp!) most of the audience. This is a carnivore with its own intimidating charm, thanks to clever manipulation by Martin P. Robinson and the voice of Ron Taylor, who sounds like Paul Robeson crossed with an air-raid siren...