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...room is quiet as Milgrim begins his spiel. "A lot of you won't believe this," he says, "but within twelve months' time seven or eight percent of the people in this room will be married to someone they met on this cruise." When the self-conscious laughter subsides, he explains that "because of the small sample, the computer can't really do its proper job," but that the computer matches should serve to break the ice. "There will be a bed check at 1 a.m.," he says with a wink in his voice...
...Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation of a brilliant urban intelligence confronting the chaos of modern life and his own psyche -written with irony, outrage and hysterical laughter...
...language transpositions from the Greek lack eloquence, spareness or precision, and the contemporary colloquialisms iar the ear. Lines like "You mean you intend to kill your mother?" produce wildly inappropriate laughter from an audience saturated with Freud. The prevailing style of the evening is that of neo-Shakespearean swashbuckling, and the barely adequate cast seems to relish all opportunities for bombast and comic clowning. The chorus resembles the witches from Macbeth multiplied. The murders might as well have been performed by Richard III. Elizabethan Greeks are a novelty all right, but they reduce the play to historical pageantry, horseplay...
...table." Whereas the rest of the menu appears hopelessly verbose, its author was here perhaps all too brief, for, loosely translated, Catullus actually wrote: "You will dine well at my table if you are lucky-provided that you bring your own dinner, a beautiful girl, wine, wit and laughter...
About lobsters, Turpin observes: "As Nerval says, They know the secrets of the sea and do not bark.' "Stephen Jones knows the secrets of the land and roars with laughter...