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...NEST BUILDER. Perhaps to prove that he is not hopelessly square in the old Dickensian way, Pritchett enters the homosexual scene with a funny story of two interior decorators-funny without sneers or sniggers. It offers neither tea and sympathy nor pot and empathy. Eventually, fox-hunting girl redesigns one decorator...
...budget, more than double the sum proposed by Johnson, to test various income-supplement schemes. In the meantime, proposed revisions in the welfare system go at least partway toward a guaranteed-income scheme. No one in either party disputes that the welfare system, a cycle of Dickensian ignominy in 20th century America, demands radical solutions. Benefits vary greatly from state to state, city to city, and welfare recipients are frequently subjected to demeaning harassment. Most insane of all, those who could take jobs are often discouraged by rules that require working recipients, in effect, to hand their earnings over...
...choice working ground for the piebald bevy of street musicians, sing ers and dancers known as buskers. Let a ticket line form on the sidewalk out side and the buskers were there to clown, sing and fiddle, while their bottlers (assistants) passed the hat for coppers and shillings like Dickensian urchins in the night. Last week there were no buskers on the sidewalk. Instead, 40 of them were inside giving the concert of their lives. And no one had to pass a hat: more than 3,700 persons paid...
Gloomy isn't it? But de Ghelderode's gleefully ironic language and vibrant, Dickensian characters make Pantagleize a powerful play no matter which side of the barricades you stand on. Gordon Ferguson's Chaplinesque portrayal of Pantagleize, probably de Ghelderode's finest creation, contributes a giant share to making Dunster House's production a rousing and boisterous, though imperfect, success...
...addict must fill out well over 100 forms?enough to make any but the most conscientious think twice before stopping a suspect. And the cop on the beat still uses the same weapons he did 100 years ago?the billy club and the gun?and often wields them with Dickensian abandon...