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Farces as a rule employ well-worn props. Even so, Moon over Buffalo has an especially familiar feel. To see it once is almost to see it twice, given how much daje vu is involved. You recognize this comic turn from Kiss Me, Kate, that one from a Preston Sturges...
The women in this film, Laura Martinez (Rachel Ticotin) and Bonnie Martin (Ally Walker) also have no depth. They are props, supporting their husbands without the will to stand up for their own rights and beliefs. Laura leaves her husband when she discovers he has cheated on her, but the...
Although Joshua Kaufman has clearly been sold on the "simplicity" of Senator Arlen Specter's postcard plan for income tax in America, his column ("Politics, Not Props," Sept. 25, 1995) reflects his failure to see through the gloss of Specter's Flat Tax Plan brochure (yes, it was glossy, too...
The campaign of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter offered, well, it offered Jonathan Steinberg. Unlike the paid political professionals manning most of the campaign booths, Steinberg is a Mather House junior who spent his summer interning at the Senator's Philadelphia campaign headquarters. In delegating a task otherwise held by the...
But even more than that, I looked around and felt like everyone around me was totally unreal--stage props wet up for my benefit to show me all the ways I had been wrong in my vision of college and the world.