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Stoppard has written a play as new as nouvelle cuisine (which, incidentally, it dismisses as passe) and as defiantly déjà vu as Private Lives, Miss Julie and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (allusions to which snake deviously through the plot). On its dazzling surface...
Indigenous ruburbanites have developed interesting ways to remind migrants of their presence. Inner-city inhabitants carry ghetto-blaster radios to announce themselves, but ruburban teen-agers favor, as the weapon of aural aggression, the 1973 Pontiac Trans Am with full-throat custom muffler. Rubber is applied to Main Street far...
Third-round spectaculars like Return of the Jedi, which the promoters teased us with for six months before finally opening to a stunning popularity, aren't even supposed to interest us older adolescents. Glossy science-fiction movies packed with grandiose special effects, especially those featuring macho heroes saving the world...
We'll declare hors de combat, passe, declasse
But enchantment is not confined to the vegetable kingdom this winter. In the face of Reaganomics and the threat of nuclear destruction, publishers all over are hoping fantasy will keep the cash registers ringing. Gnomes is a bit passe, but try The Unicorn, The Unicorn and the Lake or, for...