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...same sites for about $4 less. As a comedy, Hard To Hold has its moments: more smiles than belly-busting hysterics of the successful and more entertaining Splash or Arthur, With only two concert scenes, it fails as an extended video for all but the most committed pop-drivel addicts...
...commit rape." I haven't yet found anyone who committed or considered committing rape after reading the newsletter, and everyone is either squeaking and beeping with outrage or laughing at those who take it seriously. I do find offensive the charge that men become rapists after reading such drivel--that we cannot think without our testicles getting in the way. If that isn't sexist, let's scrap the term...
HOPELESSLY TRAPPED by such drivel, the cast nevertheless plugs away with surprising spirit and energy. Less, unfortunately, can be said for other aspects of the production. The band consistently falters on the Carole King score, while the disjointed intrusions of motherly presence via large video monitors (with sequences by Melanie McDermott, Alison Taylor, and Ruth Mieszkuc) fail to achieve any immediacy at all. But such flaws of execution remain secondary in a show which so clearly should never have been attempted. The Sendak mystique for children is in many ways analogous to the grown-up vogue of Edward Gorey...
...belly." Conaway sketches in the intervening years: at Harper's, "his stewardship foundered in 1971," so Morris went off "to dwell on the cusp of his own notoriety." His books since are quickly disposed of: one is "a disappointment to his admirers"; another a critic had called "derivative drivel"; a third "did nothing to enhance Morris' reputation...
...watched the major networks, you received one after another tantalizing, juicy piece of the apocalypse on your dinner plate. Or if you swallowed the articles of what can only charitably be called drivel which Alexander Cockburn published in The Village Voice, you ought to be a rabid anti-Semite. Only a few Martin Peretz, William Safire and Norman Podhoretz among them had the intelligence to announce that the Americans were being snarled in lies. Even today, when the miasma of Sabra and Shatila lingers heavily, few thoughtful people would claim to know what happened--or, for that matter, what...