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...death in nineteenth-century Irish Brooklyn and turned it into a dirge. It is without a doubt one of the most misguided jobs of musical staging I've ever seen. Marre should know that tragedy can only work in musicals if treated slyly: the sadder events of Hogan's Goat must sneak in the back door of Who to Love -for if the audience is allowed to dwell on unhappy plot developments in a musical, the audience eventually realizes how silly the whole musical convention...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Theatregoer Who to Love | 2/18/1970 | See Source »

Alfred has gone on since then to write the Broadway play, Hogan's Goat. He is now assisting in the production of the play's musical version...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Four Leading Poets to Reunite for Reading | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...Charles' existential updating, however, there is no sacrificial ram to substitute for Isaac and no hand of God to stop Abraham's knife. The New Satyricon often reads like a pegged-leg parody of both William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and John Barth's Giles Goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naked Brunch | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

SEVENTH DAY. The hunt was over. Deer spotted: 17. Arrows shot: 0. "Boy, those whitetail are really something," said Fred as he headed home. "They're just smarter than hell. Reminds me of the time I was hunting mountain goat in Alberta with Bud Gray, the chairman of Whirlpool. After about three hours of panting up those icy mountains, he rested on his bow and said: 'Tell me we're having fun, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...scraggy Calabrian underbrush, opened up with pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, wounding seven cops and taking two injuries of their own in a half-hour firefight. When it was all over, the police gathered up a sackful of weapons, 35 cars that had been abandoned on goat paths, and 21 gunmen aged 19 to 75. But the pezzi grossi (big shots) got away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Mushroom Mafiosi | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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