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...alas, no intelligent treatment of sensitive issues, no probing of our souls' seamy undersides. At bottom, this show is clean. Unbesmirched by ambiguity, wiped of Weltshmerz, it comes to us like a babe, puerile and kicking. No meat for melodic meditation, no erudite arias, no recondite repartee a la intelligencia. In a word--a four-letter word--the book of Lady Be Good is gosh-darn dumb. But like the song says: the production has "got a rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm" that could make "you all aquiver." The Gershwin songs are great, stuff your grandmother might have warbled...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Good Enough Gershwin | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Rojack murders his wife (an emasculating Great Bitch), tangles with cunning police, staggers into involuting imbroglios with an opportunistic fraulein, a southern chanteuse, a negro singing idol and, through them, with larger or vaguer or uglier forces--the Mafia, haut society, the Muslims, dirty politics, high finance, television, university intelligencia...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Mailer's Violent Dream: Murder, Sex, Madness | 4/15/1965 | See Source »

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