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...chronicling the invention of the horse-collar. But his artistic effectiveness derives mostly from his subtleties of form. As if the drama in his allegory "I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying," weren't sufficiently strong to express the dilemma of outmoded, outrageous American simplicity abroad, he invests it with a mock-epic structure, all the more sharply exposing his quiet American's hollowness...
...second term. A more ebullient, less inhibited Nixon emerged. At a restaurant in Coral Gables, he mingled jovially with the other diners, patting a girl on the cheek and telling her: "You'll always be beautiful because you are blonde." To a dermatologist, he said in mock horror: "Skin and all that. Don't tell me any more about it!" Stopping at an ice cream drive-in after dinner, Nixon chatted with other customers, told the manager: "Your spirits must...
Jeffrey Wayne Davies as Bunthorne the mock aesthete who prides himself on the flock of women who adore him creates a dark but wispy Edgar Allan Poe type a creature of irreproachable vanity and matchless hypocrisy. His mastery of the stage the music the orchestra and the audience during the famous "Bunthorne's Song." ("What an extraordinarily deep young man....") has to be seen to be believed He so far outshines anyone who has hit the boards in G&S in recent years including himself in other roles that any attempt to describe him would collapse into superlatives...
...five years the earthquakes will have destroyed the world, in the meantime everyone is dying of indifference and analysis. Which is more unoriginal, the critique of its technique, is moot. The amazing thing is that Lessing takes herself seriously. The language of "Report" may be pseudo-scientific, but mock-serious it is not. Lessing slaps on truism after truism with the plaster knife of all her wellworn and well meaning liberal convictions. Once again the saving grace of humor is absent where it is most needed...
...pages. Stephen Greene. $19.95. Half a century has not diminished the charm of John Held Jr.'s prototypical leggy flappers or dulled the gaiety of their cork-nosed, raccoon-coated boy friends. This well-produced selection also includes his little-known, deft watercolors and woodcut cartoons that gently mock the 1890s ("Horse whipping the masher and good for him"). Shallow stuff, but as Held would say, ah, those dear dim days...