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What's 6 ft. 4 in. tall, throws a knockout punch, and has long furry ears? It's John Wayne, drawling veteran of over 200 he-man films, dressed up in a rabbit costume. With enthusiastic support from Laugh-ln's comedienne Sarah Kennedy, Wayne is impersonating the Easter bunny on next month's opening of Laugh-In. Acting the role of a rabbit did not come easily. When he arrived onstage, the Duke growled: "The first guy who snickers gets a broken face." After the ordeal was over, he remarked: "I felt pretty funny...
...down to whether you like Nixon or you don't. His image is set. By the third week in October, I would guess that Nixon will be very much on the defensive. The polls will show Nixon and McGovern running even. He'll try to pull a rabbit out of the hat, but what can he do? Go to the moon...
...informal, because there was no stage to separate the actors from the first ring of children seated on the floor. This close range prompted almost spontaneous audience participation. The actors introduced themselves in individual conversations with the children, shook hands, danced and even had two of the children help Rabbit and Christopher Robin free Pooh from Rabbit's front door where he was stuck. The two were abashed and hesitating at first, but when they became accustomed to the spotlights' glare, and their adrenalin started racing, they pulled with all their might. I just wish there had been more audience...
...race worth running, even on a muddy track, and with tough competition. And suppose the rabbit were to go all the way-Woody Allen, dramatist. That just might be what Allen Stewart Konigsberg has been searching for all his life: the biggest one-liner of them...
...exactly the materials for War and Peace, or even a Rabbit Redux. But Vonnegut is entertaining: he works with a writing line of aptly terse description prone to break into fragments of anecdote whenever a theme needs developing. And he cuts into the narrative with his own voice, full of pathos expressed in the right phrases. "So it goes," the Tralfamadorian "lament" for death repeated by Vonnegut whenever he's forced to report it, is at first a "would you believe twenty killings?" shtik--only to become a Shantih, Shantih of a different stripe and level...