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...luxury hotel's theatre. It was billed on the marquee as "The Laff Riot of Two Continents." Appallingly, the Loeb's Godot seems to have followed this Miami-Shlock school of drama approach. Everything is played for a laugh: the broadcast techniques of burlesque and vaudeville. Bob Hope-like gag timing, facial mugging, and borsht-belt delivery make for a jolly evening in the theatre. Unfortunately, this has transformed Godot from the blackest and best of our existential absurdist dramas into a Marx Brothers romp...
Instead, we will march from Post Office Square today at 3 p.m. to the Berkeley Police Station. We will march because we understand that the state will not free Bobby Scale, that it will continue to bind and gag and starve black people in this country until enough people decide that they are willing to do anything to stop it. But we will also march because we understand that, in a real sense, we do not yet know about racism, and that only by fighting it can we learn what it is that we are fighting...
...Trial. Obviously a judge has to maintain order in his court, but ordering physical restraints is often futile. Bound and gagged, Bobby Seale still managed to squeal and squirm enough to disrupt the Chicago proceedings. Besides, the sight of a bound prisoner is repugnant to most Americans. And a gag only supports defendants' claims that they are being silenced for their political views. Judge Julius Hoffman finally ordered Seale to jail to await trial alone...
...hear the proceedings but not be heard himself. Such a booth was employed in the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. But in that case the Israeli prosecutors used it to protect Eichmann from possible assassination-not as a muzzle. Even so, the booth smacks of suppression like the gag...
...last you don't notice its superficiality till you leave the theater. While a grisly joke is being played on Elliot Gould, Sutherland is over there asserting his salty personality, and when that begins to pall your attention is diverted by a new twist on that old running gag in the background. M. A. S. H. simply gives its audience more than one thing to watch at a time. It therefore becomes the only recent American commercial feature to stay more interesting than watching people on the sidewalk would have been...