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...steely-grey head forward, she went on, "At the first meeting there was a screaming mob outside the building. After the meeting the building was burnt down....People said that women," Mrs. Spafford told, "had weak feminine brains incapable of serious thinking." She received a generous round of laughter from the ballroom...
PLAZA SUITE is a ride through a tunnel of fun, flecked with a recognition of life's unfunny truths. In three playlets, Neil Simon hawks almost uninterrupted laughter, particularly in a sly satire of the Sunset Strip set, and a flailing farce about the father of a most reluctant bride...
...evening ripples with laughter, a renewed credit to Williams' fluent comic sense. Yet the undertone of the play is prevailingly sad. The characters are sterile in their neurotic self-concern, people who cannot feed each other the simplest joys of life because each is so busy devouring himself...
Television seems to make its living mistaking melodrama for drama and canned laughter for joy. But last week three very good documentaries treated the human tragicomedy with unaccustomed honesty...
...wonder hey don't call it something else"). Settled in Chambers ends up tamely with all the conventional comedy answers and one big question: What lace-curtain gentility, what damnable tact keeps lonor Tracy from finally ripping through? The book earns its solid quota of middle-volume laughter, but its uthor remains cursed by an un-Irish 'emon of cautious restraint...