Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comic Relief. For all its basic corniness, Wayne's act is shrewdly staged. He oozes sweetness while his brother Jerry makes sour wisecracks. Wayne bounces onto the stage singing Hello, My Baby, or some such wormy number. He then launches into saccharine favorites like Swanee, For Once in My Life and Kids, a patented anti-divorce song that, according to fan mail, has mended many a rending home. Lest the unsentimental throw up, naughty Jerry introduces some comic relief. "You're such a marvelous audience," Wayne coos, "I want to try something that we've never tried...
Modest in scale, unpretentious in theme, the paintings at Los Angeles' David Stuart Gallery last week provided a rare moment of comic relief from the outsize banality that too often passes for high seriousness in the contemporary art whirl. There were voluptuous whores and prancing dandies in rollicking Yukon saloons. An old gramophone almost visibly rocked with some long-forgotten tune of the Old West, while near by a row of hilariously curved hoofers cancanned...
...problems which concern you are not different from the problems which concern the rest of us. Nor are they to be understood as being simply ignorantly of our creation. Their origins are deep in the texture of things. Nor are they to be eradicated quickly by demand and demonstration. Relief can come only as they are attacked from bases deep set in exploration and knowledge and with determination to stay...
...such mood it is easy to denounce, to find fault, to make unjust accusations, to visit the shortcomings of the world, and of ourselves, on scapegoats- even to light fires or throw stones- for personal relief or for exploitation-easy and totally unworthy. It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation, to refuse to become frustrated and angry; to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain; to determine to be adult and fair; and thus to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long...
...small groups, however, did provide a sort of comic relief to the main struggle. One of them, the Worker's League, spent most of its time attacking another small group called the Sparticists. The Sparticists, in turn, constantly accused the Workers' League of having sold out. The ideological differences between the two groups are purported to be so subtle that even the most astute observers do not know what they...