Word: intelligencia
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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...
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...
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