Word: nonomura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foil--Roy Nonomura, Cornell; Richard Peretti, Princeton; Paul Chew, Columbia; Sabre--Losonczy, Columbia; David Jacobsen, Yale; House, Yale. Epee--Larry Kramer, Columbia; Daryl Taylor, Pennsylvania...
...lines, as I read my notes, are great. Barnard Hughes as General Fitzhugh (he played the mad revivalist-pimp in Midnight Cowboy ) shoves a Sears Rocbuck size military catalogue in the lap of Nonomura's Prince Gow. "See if there's anything in there that grabs...
...neglected ambassador is General Halftrack; the pacification program man is Dudley Do-Right; the wife is Debbie Reynolds in her new TV comedy show ("Oh, Mr. Mayflower, my husband didn't make you out to be a horse's ass."); the ambassador's daughter who organizes the students at Nonomura and goes to Radcliffe has a lisp and is straight out of The Impossible Years. And it is rumored that Art Buchwald doesn't really exist-that he is the unfulfilled dream of Walter Lippman, or better yet, Walter Lippman, disguised as a humorist...
...dialogue consists of newspaper lines-hardly the way people speak. The jokes grow out of political jargon and do not arise from human relationships. But when the Prince replies "Horseshit!" to an American platitude about "a new spirit of pride in Nonomura." a human being is talking and it got the biggest laugh of the night...
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