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...exhibited in Paris. Some of his big abstracts from the '20s, like Around a Point, must be reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...
...takes care of that early in the first act when, in a neat libidinization of the bloodless original stage directions, she contrives that our heroine, Raina Petkoff, must sit on Bluntschli's revolver after the fugitive Servian captain has clambered through her window and taken refuge in her boudoir. Hoo-ha! What's more, H. Rodney Clark's Bluntschli is such a card, and Anne K. Ames's Raina such a flighty creature, that the Shavian prospect of sincere and kindly intercourse never dares rear its gentle graying cranium on stage during the next 90 minutes. What does appear...
Whether they call it the blues, a case of the hoo-ha's or "free-floating angst," nearly everyone has wrestled with depression. Cures are various, and likely to be temporary: a cold shower, a new hat, pills, a chat with a doctor or a friend, or simply repeating to oneself that "tomorrow is another day." Many people push a burden of inexplicable sadrtess through half a lifetime like Sisyphus with his famous stone, and try to believe that they are happy just the same. But when Author Percy Knauth fell into a depression, none of these things worked...
...Hoo-hah. But if you are in the market for some laughs that aren't spelled with two f's, then maybe you can pick up a couple for free when David Misch plays the Nameless Coffee House...
After comparing Nixon to Herbert Hoo ver, one young man said, "I could never vote for a Republican now." acknowledged Mallary: "I'm sure elections will be run against Richard Nixon for the rest of the century...