Word: macbird
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...York, Macbird, a ham-handed attack on Lyndon Johnson that makes no sense, flashes no wit, and deserves no mercy, was beginning negotiations for rental of an off-Broadway theater in which it plans to open in November. It presents the President and Lady Bird as latter-day Macbeths, murdering anyone who gets in their way, opposing "the Wayne of Morse," and chattering in very blank verse. Heaved together by a 25-year-old former Berkeley student named Barbara Garson, the play and its message are exemplified in Macbeth's lines to his chief of war, Lord MacNamara...