Word: jukebox
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...play is apprentice work of the Bard's, but it does contain premonitory inklings of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night. However, the theme of young love is scarcely served by this dryly mocking adaptation. The musical resembles an animated jukebox and comes alive only in one sultry number, delivered by a one-woman heat wave named Jonelle Allen. The excuse for ventures of this sort is that they render the classics accessible. Actually, such shows are merely masked in the accessories of modernity - rock music, randy deshabille, silly props and lofty panfraternal sentimentality. The resulting trivia are perfectly...
Another Vision. The racial mix meant racial tensions. A group of black youths at Brooklyn College complained when militant Jewish students kept playing an Israeli song on a campus jukebox, and an ugly fight followed. In classrooms, the conflict between elitist teachers and egalitarian students is more subtle. When one young English instructor offered to share his knowledge of a Walt Whitman first edition with his class, a black student answered: "Look, man, you're into this first-edition bag, and that's all right with me, understand. But man, I think it's a crock...
...addressing its apathetic customers. She has, it seems, beaten up a girl now whimpering in the ladies room. She talks about this, and about her relationship with the girl, but she gradually slips into the past and future. While she talks, she plays her favorite song on the jukebox, over and over; it serves as a background, an aural prop for the kind of good-time life she would like to think she's leading. She, like most of the "regulars" who show up that night, is a drifter whose fever to move on turns her into a garrulous, unattractive...
...music from the jukebox stops, the other characters in the bar come into focus. We meet Leona's latest boyfriend who has shacked up in her trailer. Unlike Leona, he doesn't live in the past or the future but he doesn't really live in the present either. He exists in a total narcissistic haze, boozing on Leona's money and returning sexual compensations. Two homosexuals enter, an Amos and Andy combination: a gawky farm boy from Iowa who is bicycling to Mexico and a Hollywood dandy with gestures reminiscent of the Oceanic roll. We also meet an alcoholic...
...only sounds of life come from a screened hut with a sign on it that says CORNER NUDE STAND. Inside, a pretty young woman is dancing nude to a jukebox; the other patrons, mostly older males, sit drinking beer, droning apathetically and ignoring the woman. A sign on the wall says NUDI BURGERS. MORE MEAT LESS DRESSING. Hocker sits down, sips a Coke and brightens somewhat. "I pioneered in nudism, you know" he shouts over the music. "We were the first nudist place to serve beer, and we were first with nude dancing. This place has attracted your professional people...