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...states ("I need you, I need you, help us!" he implored the crowds) before touching down in Georgia's dawn fog on Tuesday morning so that he could vote in Plains. His throat was raspy. His right hand was scratched red from ceaseless, frantic "pressing the flesh" with the throngs that met him. He had put on pancake makeup to cover the red blotches on his face, but the signs of weariness showed through. He had scarcely slept since the latest hostage maneuvering broke early Sunday morning...
Andrew Sellon fares better as Cocky since his character is--at least by musical comedy standards--more flesh-and-blood. Though his singing sometimes weak, Sellon's performance has a weet subtlety and his flexible, loose-limbed body enlivens Sara Roy's bouncy but bland choreography. Sellon, through charm and verve, survives one of the show's most dismal moments--an inane dream sequence in which Cocky slays a rag-doll dragon for his white-clad maiden (Belle Linda' Halpern) whom Robert Swerdlow's fair-to-middling lighting design strikes at most unflattering angles...
...Dick Gib son Show (1971) a druggist tells how knowing the secret medical problems of his women customers gradually unhinged him: "My mind was like the waiting room of a brothel." More often, though, passion is the least Elkin's people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave on his local business: "The Mister Softees are all melted. The Lord has beaten the Mister Softees back into yogurt cultures." And Elkin...
DOCTOROW makes Joe more than a symbol, gives him blood and flesh and a life of trudgery to fight and conquer. And he gives him a friend and a lover. The lover is Clara Lukacs, a lurid beauty with creamy skin and silky hair, a mortician's daughter and a mobster's moll who escapes with Joe from the Great Depression. They can never run far enough; the depression overwhelms them, the world closes in until the glamorous doll is no more than a housewife in Jacksontown, Indiana, and the noble free-spirit is the headlight man on the assembly...
...humorist in his New York Times column: "Thus is the produce of the most fertile brain placed at the disposal of the masses. The most advanced mind is able to serve the humblest illiterate by being applied to contain a sneeze, to comfort some tender portion of the flesh, to absorb perhaps a dollop of fish grease which has landed on the kitchen floor...