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...locale is a presidential palace in a Caribbean republic in the early 1930s. His emphasis is on death, ritual and the family. The family is presented as a verbal killing ground where people prepare for real death. The ritual of death itself is a coup de theatre, a mock bullfight complete with toreador costumes in which the killers and the killed are all humans. The conceit works in that both Greek tragedy and the bullfight derive their heightened drama from an imminent awareness of death...
...level, Maclnnes is still knowledgeably documenting his casebook on people-exploiting-people. For beneath the mock-replica Tom Jones style, Westward to Laughter is a kind of quick history of the slave trade-a flashback, so to speak, from Maclnnes' novel of black London, City of Spades. Shooting his imitation-lace cuffs and pointing angrily from today's ghetto back to the West Indies of the 1750s, Maclnnes says, in effect: here's where it all started...
...eager to treat a group of Down Under newsmen to his impressions of New York's latest word in nude theater. "Dirty, smutty and boring," judged Helpmann, 60. Did he think the nude mood could ever spread to ballet? "Oh, no, no, no!" he protested, recoiling in mock horror. "I mean there are certain parts of the male and female anatomy which don't stop swinging when the music does. Think how disconcerting for the orchestra. They'd have to add an extra 'plonk...
Kole's performance-"Unmasking the Unknown" -was jointly sponsored by the Campus Crusade and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship. After conducting a mock seance, "seeing" with his fingertips, and describing while blindfolded objects held by startled students, Kole unmasked his demonstrations as "extra-sensory deception" -and said that most such performances are fraudulent...
...technology to its logical limit. Instead of having pro football games played on a score of stadiums located in the centers of the nation's major cities, let them take place-without spectators-in one stadium located in a remote rural area, or better yet, in a Hollywood stadium mock-up left over from 1930's college movies. This stadium would never be idle; each day-or even every five hours-two pro teams could play a game there...