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Presiding over the action is Lewis Stadlen, who plays the geriatric Voltaire, the buoyant Pangloss and assorted villains. The set, which might have been a collaboration between Rube Goldberg and the sculptor Jean Tinguely, turns in its own virtuoso performance. It throws down bridges between continents, cascades green streamers down to simulate jungle, and rocks like a storm-battered ship. Despite such assaults, the audience is treated with a kind of 18th century courtesy and just the right note of complicity. If there could be a lovelier Candide than this, it is difficult to imagine...
Both Pedro and Michael Goldberg, a legal advisor to the tenants group, questioned the legality of the demolition permit which the City Building Department issued to building owner Rothman last year. The permit must be issued to the legal property owner and Rothman's rights to the land were suspect, they said...
...ISSAC H. GOLDBERG...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...early 1930s, when Goldberg was in his 40s, his quality began to decline. Still, he continued to work successfully for years as an ultraconservative editorial-page cartoonist with the New York Sun and Journal. Goldberg died in 1970 at the age of 87. Neither Biographer Marzio's scholarly research nor the cartoonist's own occasional triumphs- he won a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave...