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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, you are generally familiar with the ins and outs of the HLS, you probably should see it. The plot is thin, even for a musical--a none-too-bright law student with the unbearably alliterative name of Bobby Bubbles gets involved in an absurd scandal which turns on a certain professor's lecherous reputation and a massage parlor beneath a pizza parlor. Most of the show's three hours, however, are taken up with Bobby's far-flung fantasies, which include a bicentennial minute on Law School history, a Perry Mason sequence and a take-off on Hollywood...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: On the Case | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

...Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both devices in a need to repress consciousness of social and sexual conflict, an insight which carries over to similar social theories in our own time, and was also able to resolve a misunderstood plot in one of her stories...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Choice Critic | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...many English manor houses, but Ambler has the whole world to spy in. And his leftist view of society (which is not incorruptible--more of that later) spurs him to take great pains letting the social conditions and political situations of his settings inform the way the plot works itself...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: My Senior Thesis | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...Intercom Conspiracy the hero is an editor with a drinking problem and so much alienation that he edits a right-winganti-communist newsletter run by a crazed American general: he falls into a plot by two bored intelligence officers in western Europe to disrupt NATO. The CIA, the KGB and other intelligence services get involved, and Ambler's knowledge of how these organizations operate--the old-boy networks; using journalists as front men--is so extensive that recent revelations about...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: My Senior Thesis | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

Since characterization in Tots is something less than two-dimensional, only the one-liners distinguish one member of the cast from another. Flo has the best, and the thief in a flat sub-plot, Jerry Mander (Tim Feran) has a lot of the really bad puns and low humor (in response to Henna's rejecting him because he's stupid, he says "I'll be partially sage, Rosemary...in time...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Guess You Had to Be There | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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