Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essays are comic turns; Rosten does equally well at carrying weighty subjects lightly. His ideas are unstartling, and in fact they would seem ordinary, if clarity and common sense were ordinary. "I wonder how those faculty members who aided campus revolt will come to terms with themselves in a calmer future," he muses, writing about student takeovers of universities in the '60s. "Did they not give away rights they would have refused to surrender to, say, an investigating committee of Congress, or a reactionary board of trustees, or a witch-hunting press? Did they...
Excellent acting, particularly by Figaro and his bride (Amy Aquino) overcomes some of the drawbacks of this half, while comic interludes are provided by Dan Breslin as an adolescent Casanova. Still, the loose ends remain apparent--personified, perhaps, in the totally inexplicable presence of an onstage onlooker in the balcony, whose only involvement in the play seems to be to make sound effects and yawn at the stupidities of the mortals beneath...
JUST THEN, a woman carrying a rolling pin walked into the room. Obviously distraught, she began pummelling the hapless comic with the kitchen implement, and screaming printable obscenities...
...sipping a modest martini, Rodney Dangerfield mused over his tumultuous climb to the pinnacle of comic prowess...
...running on another of his almost deceptively puerile and sophomoric comic monologues, interspersing comments about Respect among the nifty one-liners and comic shticks...