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...moderate opposition coalition, which is comprised of the Social Democrats and the Liberals, has done little more than stay on the middle of the road (a la the U.S. Democratic Party) and bridge the ever increasing gap between Toryism and rabid Labor ideology. The net effect in this election was even worse than siphoning of votes from Jimmy Carter in 1980 by Independent John Anderson to the benefit of the Conservative candidates Reagan and Thatcher...
This shift away from farce reduces all the earlier scenes, a good two-thirds of the play's to background for the real drama of the second half. In this light the play's first act is much too long and rambling; an entirely extraneous street women and her rabid dog, included purely for a few limp laughs, are only the furthest extreme of the play's meandering. The early scenes of the second act show what that first act might have been: here, the script is tight, and much more amusing...
...reading your statement on Bloom County, I was reminded of many newspapers' decision not to run Garry Trudeau's famous "Guilty, Guilty, Guilty" Doonesbury strip. Trudeau was puzzled by this, because he in fact was poking fun not at John Mitchell, but rather at the most rabid Nixon-haters, as represented by his character Mark...
True to form, the Boston Garden at dinnertime on the first two Mondays of February 1982 was not the place to be. Unless, perhaps, you were a rabid Harvard-hater and enjoyed watching the Crimson lose even in amazingly boring style. The opener versus B.U. was a 5-1 Terrier rout even less close than the score indicated. Jack Parker's men checked Harvard relentlessly, slowing down the Cantabs until they looked like zombies...
...Lebanon as compared to the more politically volatile events in the U.S.'s backyard debacle in Central America, than from spreading Jew-hatred within the journalistic ranks. And by the way--I read the Village Voice, even Alexander Cock burn sometimes, and I promise I am not "a rabid anti-Semite...