Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eliot's odd plays, The Cocktail Party is quite possibly the oddest. At times the characters flourish an almost Wildean wit; at others they sit around quoting passages that sound like they were deleted from an early draft of the Four Quartets.. Needless to say, it is when Eliot is Wildest that the play is most interesting; only the drollery, in fact, makes it produceable...
...entertain the kiddies. Both have their eyes on the world of men; the animals take the spotlight only because of the way they become involved with it. The common theme that unifies the two films is the ways society can stifle and destroy the natural goodness of life. Needless to say, when natural goodness first appears, it is wagging its cute little tail...
...wife and two children behind him (he was divorced two years ago), Hefner claims that he would make himself "take a sanity test" if he should contemplate marriage again. Instead, he loves his work. "My doctor says I do it 'with a bright flame,' " he boasts. Needless to say, he has never had a vacation...
...desire to say the hell with it all (frigid and nagging wife). Although he flatly and ethically rejects Angelo's offer of five thousand dollars a year, in return for a certain averting of the eyes, he goes for Claudia, the prostitute, like an alcoholic for his morning shot. Needless to say, Halberstam tosses in a few scruplous after thoughts. After all, what would the loyal, good citizens...
...play's outstanding virtue is marvelous economy. Though it is not a particularly easy task to present an entire psychoanalytic study in two and a half hours, Denker does it by omitting needless chaff almost entirely. The result, admittedly, is a somewhat, oversimplified representation, but it is still a remarkable achievement. Very little that is said or done in the bulk of the play lacks purpose, and for this reason it holds audience interest to an extent that I, for one, have rarely seen before...