Word: nits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage by hooking up electric eels; Wong Chop, a Chinatown connection; and, inevitably, a girl named Jane...
Layne is beginning his second season at 135th St. and Broadway after starring at CCNY in the late '40's. In 1950, City was the collegiate kingpin, winning both the NCAA and the NIT crowns. But Layne and his teammates were later implicated in a major point-shaving scandal. The subsequent investigation sent shock waves through college basketball, and Layne eventually pleaded guilty to the charges...
...grown to tidal wave proportions. Last year, Tom Young's Rutgers squad went 31-0, advancing to the NCAA Final Four before losing to Michigan and UCLA. St. John's, Hofstra and Princeton were all part of the post-season hoopla, while St. Peter's went to the NIT...
...such nit-picking probably misses the point of Bubbling Brown Sugar, which is to demonstrate the wealth and diversity of spectacular talent in Harlem of this period. And in this aspect, the production is an unqualified success, and a powerful emotional experience. Some of the comic acts may be embarrassing as they bring to life outrageous stereotypes; some of the songs are evidence that tastes have changed, and what was stylish forty years ago is hackneyed today. But the faithfulness of Bubbling Brown Sugar (the title is from a line in "Honeysuckle Rose") to every facet of entertainment is undeniable...
...that. In her family living room we have been spying her, every evening after supper, ostensibly unravelling math problems for school, but in reality, of course, documenting the sordid details of her mother's scary sleep-walking, her father's hunger for inheritance, plus all the humorless nagging and nit-picking French bourgeois coupling. (Not for spite or for blackmail, but she confesses--addressing the camera like a fellow detached spectator--merely for her own amusement...