Word: riotous
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RUMORS. After a meditative family trilogy, box-office champ Neil Simon returns to riotous farce in his 23rd play, at San Diego's Old Globe on its way to Broadway...
...Even the demonstrations that have become the city's most celebrated feature abroad are stylized rites of disorder, public performances in which both sides take time off for lunch and stop fighting for the national anthem. A city like Tokyo is all spotless efficiency, a city like Calcutta all riotous confusion. Seoul, in a sense, is the meeting place of the two, the place where boisterousness collides with planning. Anarchy, you might say, by the numbers...
...revealed in the passion and urgency of his doubled exclamation points and question marks ("Caramba! Quien sabe?"), while the impassive Chinese traditionally added to his so-called inscrutability by omitting directions from his ideograms. The anarchy and commotion of the '60s were given voice in the exploding exclamation marks, riotous capital letters and Day-Glo italics of Tom Wolfe's spray-paint prose; and in Communist societies, where the State is absolute, the dignity -- and divinity -- of capital letters is reserved for Ministries, Sub-Committees and Secretariats...
...novel opens on a scene of riotous confusion: a midsummer night's ball at Oxford University, where a circle of friends who had met at college some 30 years earlier assemble to dance and drink until dawn. If this setting reminds anyone of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, so much the better, for many of the events in The Book and the Brotherhood make sense chiefly as manifestations of Renaissance romance: frantic and aimless wanderings, repeated instances of women falling suddenly, inexplicably in love with inappropriate...
...been a folk hero since early slave days, and his sly outwitting of bullies and bosses is history disguised in fur and interpreted by the victims. Jump Again! (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $14.95) demonstrates that a classic offers something fresh to each generation. This time it is Van Dyke Parks' riotous retelling and Barry Moser's elegant watercolors. Beneath the new surface, of course, the hero is instantly familiar, once again outmaneuvering Brer Fox, Weasel and Bear, winning the paw of Miss Molly and proving graphically that when trouble comes, "There's always...