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Life's 21-in. dwarf, TV, is parodied in the second playlet, and what might be merely predictable is so superbly done that it provides porcupine-quilled social comment. The third playlet is simple and startling. A huge papier-mache Mother Hubbard doll intones a litany of all the beauties of the motel room that she owns, conjuring up memories of the garish comic horrors of the journey through a Sahara of motels in Nabokov's Lolita. Into this room tromp a man (Conrad Fowkes) and a woman (James Barbosa) looking like plaster casts with comic-strip blow...
...tide: a cool comic moralist who spews upon the shore line all the debris of vice-infected humanity. In The Alchemist and Volpone, Jonson was a giant of comedy. Directing for the crude buffoonery characteristic of the Bard's low-comedy scenes, Irving turns him into a Shakespearean dwarf...
...also studies the lives of the courtesans and acquires a French mistress whose advanced love games are teasingly unscored. The one fact of life Francis cannot face is the birth record his wife ferrets out that shows he is the child of a 21-inch circus dwarf and a lunch-wagon cashier. In a hysterical tizzy, Francis flees to Europe with a fresh mustache and a new passport listing his identity as Francois Hillairet...
...them. Napoleon's coronation? Jacques Louis David's massive painting is the permanent report. French firing squads at work in Spain in 1808? Goya's painting, both witness and indictment, has fixed the image for all time. The court of Philip of Spain? On courtesans, and dwarf retainers, Velasquez has the final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging of a Savonarola in Florence or the thrust of the Civil War cavalryman's saber as seen...
...Live. Supernovae are the most violent of a group of three exploding stars whose two other members -novae and dwarf novae-periodically flare up for a short time and then return to their original state. By contrast, a supernova is never the same again...