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There are also the restaurants: the sit-down places like Ken's Pub and Hunan ("You just can't find places like that in Harvard Square," says Smith), the quickie places like McDonalds' and the 24-hour Jack in the Box ("We've got our choice of 43 dreck places to eat at down here," says Lane), and the widest assortment of bars and discos, like The Speakeasy, the Cantab, etc., etc., this side of downtown Boston...
Exploitation is at the core of this show. The idea was to cash in on the popularity of the Beatles. Their songs are probably as original and innocently evocative of the flower-child world of the '60s as they ever were, but here they are trampled under the dreck of Tom O'Horgan's grimagination. Just to offer one example, his notion of enhancing a song like When I'm Sixty-Four is to have two doddering floor-to-ceiling puppets paw lewdly at each other. As for plot, he tells a fragmentary tale...
Remarkably, John Irving manages to weave the disparate fragmented elements of Trumper's calamities into a rich, unified tapestry. From the dreck of daily lives, he can make the improbable seem likely and retrieve something of beauty...
...finds its enemies innumerable. Thrifty upriver towns happily send their raw sewage roiling southward toward foul and wicked Manhattan. Tankers leak oil. Corporations discharge incalculable quantities of industrial waste. They always seem able to find a tame scientist to testify before civic bodies that acids, oils, oxides and industrial Dreck of all sorts are only minimally harmful. When that fails, they pay minimal fines and cheerfully go on polluting...
...Foods recently started test-marketing a snack product called Pringle's Pop Chips only to discover that Procter & Gamble was simultaneously testing Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips. Even greater risks lurk in the slang of foreign languages. A leather-preservatives manufacturer tried to market a product called Dreck-until he discovered that the name means dirt (or worse) in German and Yiddish...