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...gleefully mugging across the stage in a two-step, Cobb is, well, the top. Cam Thornley also makes the most of his role as Moon-face Martin, a public enemy who can't move up from his #13 ranking. Under wraps in priest guise, Moon delivers a sidesplitting mock sermon and, later, inspirational song urging Billy to "Be Like the Bluebird." Dallin is slightly stiffer but shines in her singing roles, particularly "I Get a Kick...
...abject surrender."World war will not start spontaneously, nor will it be avoided by chance. Real men and women, most of them anything but reckless, control the superpowers. Yet the program also made clear the unnerving flipside: for all their academic degrees and years of Government experience, the mock NSC facing the ersatz crisis showed flashes of anger, vast knowledge tinted by political bias, impatience and even occasional confusion. The Crisis Game demonstrated that for better and worse, the fate of the earth is in human hands-a useful reminder the week that a swath of Kansas and Missouri...
Commandeering a local television station's videotape equipment, Gill and Rozier wandered the sidelines conducting mock interviews until, suddenly, through the view finder Rozier saw a stern closeup of Osborne. Gill stuck out the microphone and demanded to know, "Why have you been running up the scores?" Before OsI borne could answer, Rozier announced, "Sorry, out of film," and they raced away laughing. To be blessed with three preeminent players at once-four, including Offensive Guard Dean Steinkuhler-is an amazement to Osborne. He has that one. player coaches forever dream about, only three or four times over...
Such designs succeed in part by playing upon our fascination with romantic decay. We travel far to admire the remnants of past civilizations. Western art abounds with paintings of ruins, and, in 18th century gardens, architects actually built them. SITE's buildings also mock the self-righteous vacuity of modern suburban architecture. "Hell, we are all scared of technology and what it will do to us," says Wines. An unsettling view of what Wines calls "the American mobilized experience" is offered in the firm's Ghost Parking Lot at the Hamden Plaza shopping center in Hamden, Conn...
...aged so rapidly that it makes the paper beneath it look brown. But almost everything else functions well in Richler's idiosyncratic, exuberant and welcome volume. What does not work is a steady insistence that humorists are a devalued species. In fact they enjoy unique privileges: they can mock the powerful, conceal anguish with a joke and enjoy an afterlife in the pages of anthologies. Small wonder that no one takes their complaint seriously. They themselves have made it laughable...