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Three shows in the past three weeks are instructive examples. Stag Movie is a flea-brained bedroom farce played in the nude. It is not without its funny moments, but the yawns are more frequent simply because Oh! Calcutta! preempted the field, and was and is the best of the barest. A rock musical, Soon, a kind of hairless Hair, lasted exactly three performances. What was wrong with it? Soon was Late...
There is little novelty these days in attacking the Pentagon. The war in Viet Nam, the cover-up of the massacre at My Lai, the service club scandals, the inability to answer North Korea's flea-bite seizure of the Pueblo-all these things and more have combined to bring the American military establishment into the noisiest disesteem since before World War II. Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, a liberal Democrat-but no doctrinaire foe of the armed services -has won national attention with his disclosures about military overspending beyond original estimates for weapons procurement, notably...
...Alpha and Omega her friend the checkout boy was waiting for her. Honey-skinned brave named Stefan. Around his neck a flea collar. "You haven't gone yet," she said...
...says. There were moments when it was almost too real as he began to see related shapes and symbols everywhere. He saw it in a farm harrow, the understructure of a funeral wreath that was shaped like a lyre, in dozens of tiny toy buglers he found in a flea market. At one point, after other children gibed at his young daughter about her father's playing with toys, Boghosian sat down and reflected on his purpose. "The play world becomes for the artist a real world," he concluded, "while the real world becomes a play world...
Charies Playhouse-Georges Feydeau's farce, A Flea...