Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are numerous other characters, most of them deliberate caricatures, only a few of them funny. The Salvation Army lady and the police inspector are perhaps the best. The movie concludes with a mad chase through a graveyard, everybody dancing happily over an open grave...
...technical sides of the production mirror the best and worst features of the acting. The incidental music syncopates Bach flute sonatas with jazz instrumentation a la Swingle Singers. Mixed with Roberts' brightly patterned sets and costumes (Charles Keating plays Valentine's feigned mad scene in a giant purple paisley robe and a huge hat like the top of a party favor), the music induces a pleasurable sense of swingingly elegant decadence...
Keating's mad scene is less frantic and more funny than any of the shouting, jumping fits the other characters lapse into. Murray has him carry a birdcage around as a mocking of Diogenes' lantern. Its mere presence is a marvelous touch. Murray, in one of those decisions which saves this production, doesn't have him constantly swing it around...
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world...
Nobody is more incensed than pompous Walter Dobius, whose philosophy is, simply, better Red than dead. The Administration has gone mad, he declares. He demands that the Gorotoland case be dealt with in the U.N. Finally, the U.N. Security Council does act on its own. In a scene described with skill and impressive authenticity, the Council debates the issue and is on the verge of censuring the U.S.-when the American delegation casts its first veto in history...