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...third of any given Ronald Ribman play seems to have been typed on a missing ribbon. It makes him a tantalizing dramatist whose characters are like stripteasers of the mind; they fling off humor, eloquence and poetry but cannot openly discard some essential inner aspect of their being...
DESPITE THIS SOUL-SEARCHING, Oliver sells out in the end. Oliver III retires, and Oliver IV renounces his decision to abandon the family fortune he rejected so endearingly. At last, Oliver knows who he is--a widowed capitalist returning to the fold after a brief fling with radical chic. The Harvard dream--or nightmare--comes true with a vengeance in this otherwise deadly dull book...
...weight throwers, happiness is measured in five-foot increments. The fair-to-middling types manage to fling the ball 60 feet, but the real heavies are the ones who make it go past 65. And all season long Ajootian has been somewhere in between...
...memorable; the staging is mishandled. In the prison cell, Creon paces to within a foot of Antigona, who is squatting in defiance. It is unlikely that a man in Creon's position would not have kicked her. Further: the crowd shuffles around forgettably and the yellow journalists fling themselves across stage in a clumsy flock. Their flutter emphasizes the parody but dissipates the tension...
...song, features liquid blips and electronically muted drums. It also boasts the hoarse background vocals of Iggy Pop, Bowie's personal Panic from Detroit. (Iggy, of Iggy and the Stooges, is famed on the punk-rock circuit for a favorite performance stunt: he would smash bottles on stage and fling himself upon them, frequently being hospitalized after gigs. Perhaps this explains the song about "Breaking Glass.") Despite the efforts of Iggy, Eno and company, "What in the World" is repetitive and uninteresting...