Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HIERONYMOUS MERKIN Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? is a crack in the face at filmmakers "who have to have endings" or whom Newley thinks are not romantic enough. Naturally, its best success in making this point comes not from characterizations of producers, directors, and writers who make up the sub-plot of Merkin putting together his film, but from the contrast of these with the few good lyrical sequences (Such as Mercy baring her nipples and shivering...
Harvard's undefeated varsity lightweights and once defeated varsity heavyweights get a final chance to find out which are really the best crews in the East when they travel to Lake Quinsigamond for the Eastern Sprints tomorrow...
There's Little Walter, sputtering on a slush dirt sidewalk, trying to find his way to a gig at Pepper's; there's Hank Williams, the bad cowboy, but he was sad, too, man. Stoic on the floor, the sad-bad hillbilly. Crazy Dylan flagging down huge trucks on Highway 61, the Automatic Kid, Energy Beam Rocker. He can't catch anything, just hold his collar to his neck and fall back when the wind hits him. Charly Parker smiling, no black revolt for him, it's all very foggy, bip-bop, if you would be so kind...
...there are all sorts of really fabuous and not so really fabulous side effects you notice while you're on this tireless study sprint. First off, you become an incredible anal compulsive. If you ever wondered what this is like, you can find out. There's nothing particularly "bad" or annoying about being an anal compulsive; you, as one, just demand tidiness. You can be typing in your room and suddenly become aware that you are tremendously irritated by something about the room. You're ill-at-ease until you spot the bedspread. After you make the bed and smooth...
Michael, the party's host, it 30-ish, charming and witty. As the play opens, we find him talking with his friend Donald, as shy Cornell drop-out, about their respective analysts, over-loving mothers and financial blues. Gradually they reveal the defense mechanisms that help them survive in a world where "failure is the only thing with which [they] feel at home." For Donald, the only escape is to go to the library and read book after book. Michael, worried about getting old, stays alive with the help of self-deprecating wisecracks ("Well, one thing you can say about...