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President Derek C. Bok, whose address was frequently interrupted by bemused faces and at time uproarious laughter, spoke much of the strides toward diversity the campus has seen since the mid 1960s, both in the student body and the faculty...
...romantic encounters hover between mechanical sex and date rape. "So I say to the bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there are different standards. The new pornography is violence, often sexual violence. And the new obscenity is race. For most...
Clay spills his latest secrets on a double comedy album, The Day the Laughter Died, which, the warning label advises us, "contains filthy language and no jokes!!!" Talk about truth in advertising: in 100 minutes of banter there are not half a dozen good dirty jokes. Yet some of the loudest laughter comes from women. Good sports at their own immolation, they giggle and groan along with their beaux. Perhaps proving they are tough is as important to them as it is to men. Others have found the spectacle less edifying. One woman at Madison Square Garden listened to Clay...
...Laughter is almost guaranteed at the Black C.A.S.T.'s North House production of Trouble in Mind. But the laughter itself is troubled--it masks very real issues of injustice and racism felt by Blacks. But the laughter and gravity are deftly handled through strong characterization and an adeptly presented text...
Barring a few uneven moments, Trouble in Mind does a remarkable job of bringing alive the racial tensions of the 1950's, even in the limited context of Childress' Broadway scenario. The play strikes a delicate balance between laughter and despair, and that perhaps, is its greatest strength. It is not straight drama, nor straight comedy, but as Sheldon would put it, "a slice of life...