Word: finding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horovitz has set the work in Harlem, on one particular morning when a black family of four wakes up to find themselves as white as the sun outside their 125th Street window. They achieved this color transformation, you see, with the help of some amazing pills sold to them by a Jewish pawnbroker who got them from God (who is black), (Or maybe you don't see- it doesn't matter...
Surely one of the funniest one-acters I have ever seen, Noon is about a wide variety of people (a nymphomaniac, a homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
...Dale does not show up- and what follows is one of the great non-orgies of all time. Only in the sixties, in the days of the so-called sexual revolution, can people of such widely varied sexual tastes come together- only to find that none of their tastes coincide. Like Horovitz, McNally powerfully demonstrates how the multitude of roles available to liberated modern man can become a humanity-crushing obsession...
...they futilely try to find a piece of the action they can call their own, the people of Noon are totally pathetic. This essential pathos of the work keeps it from being erotic. Still, McNally's documentation of the sexual mores involved- complete with whips and chains, undressing, and noneuphemistic language- will nonetheless strike some people as obscene. That's their problem...
...times during the past decade, the University has helped the Friends of Harvard Sailing, the yacht club's alumni supporters, in their efforts to find a permanent site for the club. But after negotiations for several proposed sites on the Charles fell through, Harvard officials told the alumni to find a site on their...