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...sure sign of a poor musical is that it consists of all work and no play. The dancers pound the floor boards like maniacal trip hammers. Sweat glazes the hero as his arms flail, his eyes pop, and he tries to kick his toes into the wings. To amplify the hollow book, microphones soup up the sound till it becomes the aural equivalent of the medieval ordeal by fire. George M!-the latest of the Broadway season's unbroken string of execrable musicals-qualifies on all counts...
...more oil dumps and rickety railroad bridges were undoubtedly added to the bombing lists Saturday. But if the brass hats took time to look outside, they would have seen their charges--National Guardsmen, paratroopers, and MPs, aided by Federal policemen--flail about with billy clubs at unarmed citizens who crossed an imaginary line...
Take 34 big-league hitters with an average-average of .290 and a total of 373 homers and 1,371 RBls. Split them into two teams, put them in a ballpark that has the shallowest centerfield in the American League, give them wind at their backs, and let them flail away madly for 15 innings. Then try to explain why the final score at last week's annual All-Star game in Anaheim, Calif., was National League 2, American League...
Ronnie Raygun. The underground papers flail away at any handy target. The Worrier was started by students of Los Angeles' University High after the official school paper, the Warrior, called anti-Viet Nam protesters "cowards." While the Worrier assails the war, as do many other underground papers, it seems equally alarmed over school rules against short dresses and long hair. There is something wrong with teachers, argues the Worrier, who are "more interested in their students' legs than in their minds." Belligerently political, the Worrier calls California Governor Ronaid Reagan's administration "the Ronnie Raygun Show...
...seeing and hearing vignettes from Winesburg, Ohio set to the cadences and dramatic form of Under Milk Wood. Eldritch is a once coal-rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around the trial of a woman who killed a presumed rapist...