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Punch and Judy Get Divorced has the potential to become very popular; like most good musicals, it has songs that are catchy without being trite, and a few themes that hit home. Satire can be defined as the art of making people laugh while dabbling in touchy subjects, and everyone laughs at this musical. But after they stop laughing, the married people in the audience mumble about how true to life the squabbling is; never-married people vow that their marriages will never be like that. No matter which category you fall into, Punch and Judy Ger Divorced...
Hundreds of people stand outside a bank in a post-apocalyptic city that looks like a remnant of the Batman movie set. Spiders crawl on the hands of the tellers. Maniacal security guards laugh at the interminable queue of customers waiting to conduct their transactions...
...audience is implicated in the burlesqued view of a family. At the beginning Jackie agrees to let us in, to watch and to laugh, turning to the audience and asking "What do you want from me?" Indeed she gives us what we ask for, but makes us feel a bit ashamed--do we really want this goulish pop-history? At the end of "Jackie: An American Life," we are asked to keep our part of the promise, to leave. And we do, satisfied, and somewhat relieved...
...about the character Quee, McCorkle gives away her special fondness for the character with an enthusiastic description and a broad smile. Quee, Denny's godmother, is running a clinic that pampers smokers and in the meanwhile "eases the seams of their clothes," McCorkle explained while trying to stifle a laugh...
...called Heart-Shaped Bruise. That might well have been the name for the retrospective of her work that runs through Jan. 5 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Romantic melancholy is Goldin's true north, the mood she always returns to. Her friends laugh and party. They show off their tattoos and tutus. But they also brood and question the dead air with their eyes. They die from AIDS. In her self-portraits Goldin shows the injuries of a serious beating at the hands of a boyfriend--bruises are the regalia of romance here...