Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that's the trouble. Everything is just a little too hectic. It's more Jarry's responsibility than Zimet's. Jarry was a Frenchman who lived in a garret with two owls and a stone phallus around the turn of the century. He took a schoolboy satire of a fat stupid professor and turned it into Ubu Roi. It's a forerunner of nearly everything: epic theatre, theatre of the absurd, Bullwinkle and the Filthy Speech Movement. You can't cram that much into a play without its getting overstuffed...
...like far ladies in sack races, you'll love Ubu Roi. Alfred Jarry's fat lady galumphs along riotously, but about two-thirds of the way to the finish line, with all that painting and sweat, she gets a little painful to watch...
...given her a lovely sack. Director Paul Zimet has mixed a wacky fondue of bright costumes, absurd props and hi-grade ham. Masked soldiers rush each other with pink sausages for swords, dashing about like a Polish division of the Keystone Cops. Andrew Weil as Pere Ubu, the fat man who usurps the Polish throne, leads the whole menagerie. He bellows like a bull, whines like a hyena and eats like a pig. Mere Ubu (Virginia Morrs) comes on with a Bela Lugosi accent, smelling roses, swearing at her husband and slaying a mock army with a toilet brush. Sidney...
...CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC (Golden) bounces through the three Rs with catchy tem pos, infectious lyrics, and clever character profiles. The number zero, for example, is a rather dispirited down and outer: "Dear little zero/Queer little zero/ He's nearly fat as he's tall." Nobody's hero, apparently, but once the other numbers discover the multiple advantages of standing next to zero, he becomes an incredibly popular and happy little cipher...
Last week, after hearing 64 witnesses and listening to brain-numbing testimony that covered 18,020 pages of transcript, the jury chose to believe Steele. It awarded him a fat $7,500,000 as compensation for the 62,000 shares of founders' stock that he claimed had been withheld from...