Word: perfect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever...
Although Simon rarely deals with young people or with bright show-biz professionals, his tart and wacky one-liners are in perfect accord with the temperaments of his hero and heroine. The show is very New Yorky in mood, with an opening backdrop of the Manhattan skyline that is like a bas-relief of tinseled Christmas trees. A top-name pop composer. Vernon Gersch (Robert Klein), surveys the scene from his luxury apartment where he first meets Sonia Walsk (Lucie Arnaz), an aspiring lyricist much in awe of his success. When she picks up his solid-gold Oscar...
...from the maritally-minded clutches of Sheriff Bob (J. Kevin Scannell), a sage brush Keystone Kop. Sally's true love is Hiawatha, or rather, Wanenis (Franc Luz), a noble North American savage from red-blooded Dartmouth. She gets him, and after a number of featherbrained misadventures, Henry finds perfect health and pneumatic bliss in the arms of a lusty-voiced, opulently endowed nurse (Carol Swarbrick...
...search for the perfect play, Simon's style has noticeably matured, though he smiles at the notion of dividing his career into periods of "early Simon" and "mature Simon." The early plays, he feels, were all on one level, devoted to getting the fun out of a funny situation; he now digs deeper psychologically and is willing to explore human traumas more openly. A wide difference in Simon's handling of painful experience divides Come Blow Your Horn, his first production, from Chapter II, his latest straight play. Come Blow Your Horn transformed the attempts of Simon and his brother...
Some great stuff has recently been released for jazz fans. Especially for those who heardly know anything about jazz, there are two high quality discs perfect for an introduction to the jazz scene...