Word: interrupter
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...glance at your guest's zipper. Keep an eye on the producer, who is pointing desperately at the stage manager, who is waving his hands wildly at you in an attempt to direct your attention to Camera No. 3, while you are trying to figure out a way to interrupt the guest, who may be drunk or stoned or both, and who is probably saying something obscene or slanderous or both about his exwife, or yours...
...consistently funny set of etiquette violations. Marlowe mistakes Miss Hardcastle (Nancy Reardon) for a barmaid, the sort of woman with whom he is as raffishly familiar as he is shyly reserved with "ladies." Hardcastle is appalled at the monstrous liberties his guests take; they roar for drink and alternately interrupt and ignore...
...Reichman shows how the subculture's beginnings in the Flower Generation-Universal Love phenomenon moved into the great hoax of transcendental meditation, and from there into alienation, separation, and death. The play is structured, to use Reichman's word, like a fugue. Vignettes of life in the drug culture interrupt each other, are occasionally broken by chants, and sometimes take place in total darkness. Yet the interweaving of characters and their stories is not discordant; rather it makes the progression through time and action more like the drug experience itself, with rapid changes in focus, intense concentration on first...
What is left is an abundant supply of jokes together with jarring poignancies. The two interrupt each other like hot and cold running water. Some super performances are to be savored. Julie Harris has played Little Girl Lost so often that she can sleepwalk her way through the part, but she is too much of a trouper not to do it beautifully. Nancy Marchand is as flinty as the Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping...
...allowed to speak for three to five minutes following the speakers, according to Knudsen. Three political groups-the Progressive Labor Party, SDS, and the Young Americans for Freedom-have been refused requests for speakers. SDS members made plans yesterday afternoon to leaflet in protest of the refusal, and to interrupt the program with chanting...