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Show biz may be full of nut cases, but it has this saving grace: an ability to pull itself up short, take a hard look in the mirror and bust out laughing. When the danger of inside jokiness is avoided, the result can be Tootsie or Noises Off. Or Soapdish...
...were to say that every citizen is entitled to housing, supplied by the government if necessary, you'd peg me as some kind of liberal. If I were to say that every citizen is entitled to equally good housing, you'd peg me as some kind of nut. Yet that is more or less what everybody thinks -- quite rightly -- about health care. Is there a politician around who would dare to say publicly that the poor should get worse health care than the rich...
When Gurganus, who studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, reaches over the broad cultural horizon, we get the satiric sampler America Competes. The piece is an inspired and deftly arranged exchange of imaginary nut letters from folks eager to win a "National Fundament of the Arts" grant. The theme, "America, Where Have You Come From, Where Are You Bound?," is to be realized on the wall of a Washington office building. A Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala...
...media rendering of the war so thoroughly smitten the nation. "I've had more Civil War conversations in the last three days in elevators and waiting in line than I've had in the last 10 years," said Christopher Nelson, a Washington business consultant and self- described Civil War nut. "I always thought American history was so dull," raved Carolyn Randolph, a retired schoolteacher in Livermore, Calif. "But I'm learning so much." Others regarded the show in more personal terms. One New York City woman unearthed an old photo of her great-grandfather, a colonel in the Union Army...
Smith puts away his students' charming first efforts and goes to work, devoting two or three weeks to each continent or land mass. Africa, hands down the toughest nut, warrants four weeks. "It's got a lot of little countries and weird names," explains Sara Stonberg. There are no tricks to this process, which is the point. Students spend two hours in class each week and another couple of hours on homework, learning the old-fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet...