Word: foolishness
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SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few and foolish women who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, Gwen Verdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can't find the best bait to hook...
...mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...
...SHOW gives a passing nod to Alfred E. Neuman's mad mag, but concentrates its satiric discourtesies on fringes of life and society more foolish than lunatic...
...books or no books at all. Right now, the way the change goes seems almost less important than the change itself. Either way the sum of money involved seems negligible. But the continued confusion--a confusion which even the bureaucrats in the state tax office admit--is foolish and undermines the confidence the people have...
...McCann gives the injection willfully in She Broke My Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...