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...last year, to avoid humiliation, Brandies concocted a clever strategy. The Judges forfeited, and now the records show that last year's Brandies squad put up a fight before falling...
...sort that Daley has given Chicago. This seems doubtful, if for no other reason than that blacks, who are rebelling against the machine, are also becoming a majority in Chicago and most other big cities. Still Boss stands as a monument to what can be done through a clever mix of self-interest, hate, fear, good timing, clever PR and strong leadership. If Boss is still relevant in the 1980's, it will be because the 1970's ignored its message...
Despite the elaborate preparations, the show works as a spontaneous interview. Ustinov did not know the questions in advance, but the facile actor-writer never had to stop the shooting and check a document for an answer. Some of the replies are clever evasions. "North wouldn't have known the answers to all those questions," Ustinov says. "It was more true to character to wing...
...interview and who gets the job as a part of an exhibit at the Museum, but who loses the suit to playwright Francine and actor Bradford, who get it back to the cleaner in time for Scott to wear it on his date with Emily, Got that? In a clever climax (around episode four) they all end up at the Museum of Fine Arts, where each muses over the exhibits and applies his particularly aesthetic standards to them. Kane, for instance, rhapsodizes to his daughter, "This is it, Mary Anne, the hub of the hub of the "universe. Culture...
There you have an approximation of a newly imported British comedy, The Philanthropist. Playwright Christopher Hampton, 24, is witty, clever, debonair; he uses the English language with sly gusto and rare affection. He has given an impressive display of that affection in his fluently idiomatic adaptations of A Doll's House and Hedda Gahler in this season's off-Broadway revivals. The misfortune in his own play is that the passion, conflict and tone of voice of a playwright saying what he feels he has to say are all but inaudible...