Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl, Marcy Schuck is cool and brassy and very funny. Her melodramatic longings for her loved one (she keeps talking about how she misses her fiance's "hands on her breasts") seethe with phony sentimentality. And when she falls in love with her new acquaintance, she does it with a wide-eyed bogus innocence that is just right. (On hearing that the boy has a job carting meat, she stares right at him and says, "I adore meat. I think it's really wonderful that you handle meat. Meat is the essence of life." It's at once credible, absurd...
...Miss Schuck keeps up her half of Sugar Plum, the other and more important half just isn't there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
...script about the brutal terrorization of a non-English speaking alien lost in New York. Rather, this play is foremost a work about communication. Joey and Murph, the two violent toughs, are as lost as the Indian. They find themselves in a world where their mothers are whores, love has no relevance to them, and nothing makes any sense. They must step on a helpless creature, if only to prove to themselves that they are alive...
...commercial hydraulic press. Edward Kienholz makes an irreverent visual joke out of his Friendly Grey Computer. The instructions read: "If you know your computer well, you can tell when it's tired and blue. Turn rocker switch on for ten or 20 minutes. Your computer will love it and work all the harder...
Sebastian Dangerfield, the lusting, heroic anti-hero of Don-leavy's comic first novel, The Ginger Man, was torn between fumbling seductions and desperate attempts to make ends meet. Balthazar B gropes endlessly for an enduring love, denied him at least partly because of his riches. He is born of wealthy French parents, and the circumstances connected with Balthazar's upbringing make him into a shy, porcelain personality curiously inept at coming to terms with life...