Word: mad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jules Feiffer may be mad, but it is our good fortune that Knock Knock is happily incarcerated in off-off-Broadway's Circle Repertory Theater. This is a kooky, laugh-saturated miracle play in the absurdist tradition. It is as if someone had merged The Odd Couple and The Sunshine Boys and peppered the mix with Kierkegaard and the Marx Brothers. Nor is that all. The unifying element is Jewish humor-skeptical, self-deprecating, fatalistic and with an underlying sadness that suggests that all the mirth is a self-protective mask hiding imminent lamentation...
...young man playing tennis says: "Right now I'm having a vasectomy." How does he do it? Golden Needles Voodoo Acupuncture-for those who don't have the time or money for costly operations. The put-ons have been too successful. The Gay Activists Alliance is mad at an ad that shows a homosexual reminiscing about the joys of dressing in his mother's clothes even as he places a long-distance call to Mom: "The next best thing to being...
...pianist, a drummer or an actor. Says his father: "He was a quadruple threat." So Chevy did everything. In 1971 he wrote for and acted in The Great American Dream Machine, PBS's comedy series. Then he toured with several rock bands and spent a year writing for Mad magazine. In 1973 he combined all his talents, becoming music director, writer and actor on the National Lampoon Theater Company's off-Broadway revue Lemmings, which he helped create...
...distinctions are not evident in his rhetorical flights, especially against the Third World. They claim that his tactics only force the more moderate Third World delegates into a face-saving solidarity with their more radical colleagues. In effect, they argue, Moynihan ignores the famous Kennedy dictum, "Don't get mad, get even"; instead of venting his anger, he should be pressing for practical results...
...Adjani manages to epitomize everything French--to be headstrong, passionate, egoistical, elegant, and sophisticated all at once. Thus one of the film's best angles, the contrast between the French and English psyche, is surprisingly successful. The British are civilized, calm, and capable of love--but not of this mad passion...