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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May's Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next are a happy combination of funny and clever one-acters. Both plays are directed by Miss May with her usual wit and comic perception...
PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal, and sometimes repellent short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal-and sometimes repellent-short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
...does, blatantly and unashamedly, is take full advantage of what children like best about TV. "Face it-kids love commercials," explains Joan Ganz Cooney, executive director of NET's Children's Television Workshop. "Their visual impact is way ahead of everything else seen on television; they are clever, and they tell a simple, self-contained story." Instead of cornflakes and Kleenex, Sesame Street sells the alphabet, numbers, ideas and concepts in commercial form. Each program contains a dozen or more 12- to 90-second spots, many repeated during the program to boost retention. Some are based...
...Clever Compromises. Nixon hardly knew Shultz when he appointed him Secretary of Labor. The President was impressed by a pre-election task-force report on manpower that Shultz had written and by the enthusiastic recommendations of his closest economic advisers, Arthur Burns and Paul McCracken. Mild-mannered and professorial, the new Secretary seemed at first to be another unremarkable technician in a Cabinet noted for its blandness. His speeches still resemble a lecture in Business Administration...