Word: mischiefs
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...penance roughly comparable to a dose of cod-liver oil. All such gentry will be dazzled, enlightened and elated by Nicol Williamson's Late Show. Williamson looks like a kind of carbonated El Greco. He has a taut elongated body and funereal brows-yet an effervescent mirth, irony, mischief and intelligence emanate from every tone and gesture of this remarkable actor. In a limited engagement, after each evening's Broadway performance in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, he unwinds in poetry and song off-Broadway...
...hers. These women lie, cheat on their cheating husbands, booze it up and assassinate each other's characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male's assumption that women are as much a conspiracy as a sex, and Mrs. Luce reveals that the conspiracy...
FRIDAY: Tom Sawyer. Twain's classic tale of boyish mischief on the Mississippi comes to television minus some of Tom's mischief and with an Ontario setting. Very Walt Disney. CH. 7. 8 p.m. Color...
...those who missed the pre-publication publicity, Alan Lelchuk's American Mischief is the novel in which Norman Mailer is shot to death by a young radical intellectual who obviously read An American Dream but forgot to close the cover before striking...
Despite selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club and advance compliments from Lelchuk's friend Philip Roth, American Mischief is not much more than another exploitive, topical novel. Lelchuk romps through the confusions and contradictions of today's beleaguered values-marriage, democracy, individualism-like a gratuitous looter in a cultural disaster area...