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What Liz Coe decided to do in this situation evidently, was to throw sense and consistency to the winds. At the beginning of each act, characters come out and sing clever rock parodies, using Moliere's lyrics and music by Michael Gury, Ed Zwick, and Mark Hunter. Argan adds up his medical bills on an old-fashioned adding machine (meanwhile writing down the totals with a quill pen). Toinette makes her first appearance on roller skates, and after a while takes them off and goes through the rest of the play in shoes. The daughter's lover, Cleante, comes...
...Democratic Party and 8.9% for his coalition partners, the Free Democrats. Emboldened by those results, and heartened by the defection of yet another Free Democratic Deputy from the ruling coalition, the Christian Democrats decided to try to replace Brandt with their own leader, Rainer Barzel, 47, a tough and clever political infighter who affects long sideburns and flashy suits...
CURT RALSTON was both clever and affecting as "The Statue" of a war hero that cynically comments on the inscription at its feet and the cant of passersby. But sometimes Ralston lets his marionette affectations dominate numbers that would be better played naturally. Paula Rose is the "Timid Frieda" and keeps her reserve amidst the general flamboyance: she is a useful touchstone for calm and excels in romantic numbers such as "I Loved...
...forty years, he bombarded the voters with FBI books, movies, radio shows, comic strips, and television series--all produced by independent companies but carefully censored by the Bureau. The propaganda took; most Americans accepted Hoover as a crusading savior. Few looked beyond to see him as he was: a clever, reactionary bureaucrat...
Unpredictably clever, obscurely erudite, obstinately elusive about answering his own questions, Sloan could be the Comrade V. of novelists: the talebearer as dehumanized intellect. But he is not-quite. As in his first novel, War Games, brilliance is redeemed by anguish-evidence that Sloan's passion is not for the labyrinth but for the people trapped in it. And to potential subway-syndrome readers, this makes all the difference. "Melvin Maddocks...