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Josie's father Phil' (Handel's) is a bantam rooster of a Connecticut pig farmer with a tongue that spits black Irish bile at his Yankee neighbors. Phil is Tyrone's tenant, and he mistakenly fears that the scapegrace James intends to sell the farm. He baits a sex trap. Josie and James will be found in bed together. James will do the right thing and marry her. She will inherit the farm...
...JUSTICE to Philip LaZebnik's The Teeth of Mons Herbert would be to write a review backwards or in pig-Latin. From the first view of the set to the rousing Schlusschor there unfolds an endless train of absurdities that defies rational criticism. This is an extremely witty show in all aspects of production, and though the material comes from all directions, it represents an agile synthesis on LaZebnik's part. As author-composer-director he has produced a consistently funny and entertaining evening that elicits laughter and a sense of amazement...
...Jane Howard had no usable models for the kind of person she wanted to be. The old male stereotypes are a rough fit, if soaked overnight to soften them: be strong (but don't be afraid to show weakness), be aggressive (but don't be a pig about it), be rational (but let the emotions flow). Female stereotypes are not so easily remodeled. It makes no real sense to urge that women be submissive (but not too submissive), flowerlike (but not wait to be picked), devoted nest builders (but go forth and confront the world...
Unless, as the network programmers suggest, TV's Year of the Cop (year of the pig?) turns out to be just another swing of the old trendy pendulum that in other years brought spates of westerns and spies to similar prominence. "I don't think the trend's going to last very long," Falk says. "All it needs is for another hit to come along in another area and then there'll be a lot of shows in that area. Anyway, to me the big dividing line is between the ocean of crap cliche...
...Pig or Baboon. The traditional treatment for acute liver failure has included such cumbersome techniques as replacing the patient's entire blood supply by transfusion, or filtering the blood through the liver of a pig or baboon. These procedures are designed to relieve the liver of the task of cleansing the blood, giving the organ an opportunity to regenerate itself. But all of them are unreliable, and even when a patient gets well, there is often doubt that his recovery has been significantly aided by the treatment...