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...Rotten All Over...
...perhaps trimmed of a few low-hanging morals. As for Albee, he'd better return to his former role of understanding bartender. He's a pretty understanding guy when he just listens and passes on what he hears, but when he starts talking about how rotten the whole world is you'd better forget...
...second half, Harvard outplayed the Dons, but, perhaps under the spell of U.S.F. alumnus Bill Russell or, as Harrison would have it, some rotten officiating, the victory went to the lesser outfit...
Surrounding Ondine, like an eccentric's collection of stray cats, are people with some interesting names: Rotten Rita, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Duchess, Billy Name, Irving du Ball, Paul Paul, Taxine, Moxanne and Ingrid Superstar. What they are actually doing, as opposed to what they are saying, is difficult to fathom from the transcript of the tape. The jacket blurb again is helpful: "The Duchess, who has stolen 3,000 pills and a blood-pressure machine, is in the hospital; Ondine dresses in drag for an evening at the 'teenage whore house'; Taxine confesses to Ondine...
...other side of the Heidi story [Nov. 29]: Small town, two channels, football on both of them. Rotten weather, ten children, nine of them running, leaping, screaming and fighting. Baby can't walk, thank God. Father in absolute coma, doesn't see, hear anything but football game. Mother a pitiful, broken creature, swilling beer (small town, no LSD available) making dinner; will they ever stop, grow up, sit down? Finally, 6:55. Mother sits down with Sunday papers. Children settle down. Cut to Heidi, end of game on television. Father goes completely berserk. Tough, there are eleven...