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...have just four things to tell you. (Holding up his index finger.) One, my name is Jimmy Carter. (Holding up two fingers) I'm running for president. (Three fingers.) I need your help. (Four fingers) I'm gonna win. And now I want to introduce some very good friends of mine from Macon, Georgia...the Allman Brothers...
...with clubs, knives and chains that have to be wrested away from them. For small troublemakers, Vineyard keeps a paddle handy. Explains one deacon blandly: "We ram respect and discipline down their throats." And more. First Baptist insists on short hair ("cut so that it is at least one finger-width above the eyebrows"). Primness also counts at the church's elementary and high schools and at its three-year-old, unaccredited Hyles-Anderson College, where a boy may not sit on a piano bench next to a girl, or touch...
...hand. Clark tries to modify their most famous sketch. Lewis starts to act in all the ways Clark loved to hate: he spits and sprays on his way to a punch line; to make a point or a joke, he jabs his partner in the chest, using his finger like an inverted exclamation mark. Is this reunion really worth...
What's really lewd, obscene, perverse and generally captivating about these new letters is a series from Joyce to his wife Nora in the latter half of 1909. These letters will immediately become a part of that strange sub-genre of literature characterized mainly by soiled finger-marks on the margines of pages: the Dirty Parts. It's doubtful that these letters will mean anything to Joyce scholarship. They mostly suggest what Joyce-the-Man was like, clarify some affinities between Joyce and the characters of his novels, and map out the origins of his works, if not the works...
AFTER MINAHAN, the star of the show is the music. The second act, which features more of Cohan's hits, is especially impressive, with one finger-snapping number fading right into another, like fourth of July fireworks. Under the direction of Karen Krag, the show orchestra handles the music with patriotic zest, only rarely drowning out the performers on stage. Cohan's score is also enhanced in this production by consistently fine choreography, which heightens the excitement of sequences like Minahan's tap-dancing rendition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and elaborately mounted production numbers like the "Over There...