Word: coaster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black family-a little like good old Kingtish and Sapphire, only a hellever lot tougher-have just popped a few pills that turn them white. Overnight. But as should be expected, devolving into a white man isn't that simple a proposition. In effect the play becomes a roller coaster excursion through a series of assumed racial identities (along with their accompanying crises) until. finally. Horovitz's white blacks decide to stick with their blackness...
...nonchalance. But do not be misled by these devices into doubting the seriousness of Mayer's purpose. The wail of fear drones in the songs (some of which, like "Cat Scratch Fever," recur in his shows as anthems), in the abruptness of the pacing and in the roller-coaster whirling of the stage machinery. In Job as in Jesus the references, the allusions, the modulations of mood may be too rapid--the whole production too visually and verbally dense--to be digested at one sitting. And it may be, too, that Mayer's profound sense of privacy may forbid...
...shanter, sometimes wore leis of flowers for press conferences, regularly delivered quotable and often provocative comments. Speaking of the day the first serious fighting occurred between police and students, he said, "This was the most exciting day of my life since my tenth birthday, when I rode a roller coaster for the first time." After he had become known statewide and was denounced by blacks as "Uncle Tojo Tom," he jokingly told reporters that he represented "yellow power" and that he was "Emperor of California...
...cast has been shaped into an intense, coordinated whole by the director, Robert Moore. Moore has recreated his original staging down to the letter, infusing this production with the same crackling energy that marked the original. As a result, Boys in the Band sends you on an emotional roller-coaster ride full of extra-ordinary dips. While it may be painful and scary at times, it is undeniably thrilling as well...
...desk, wire service machines behind it. Nixon has had them all moved out, but even so Johnson seems to foresee that the new President will also be affected by the tone of the news. He begs the press to treat Presidents more evenly-"instead of on a roller coaster that carried them from unreasonable heights at the beginning of their tenure to unreasonable depths once the honeymoon was over...