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The sketches are plentiful and blessedly short, making their satiric point and dashing on. The eight cast members (five women, three men) are uniformly good. She TV is smarter, fresher and more perceptive than any other TV comedy in years. Why hasn't anyone noticed?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: She Who Laughs Last ... | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

With a poisonous dose of theatrical hooliganism, the Havard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's "Largo Desolate" achieves fluency with Havel, if not with Havel's Kafka. While the stage antics often supersede the play's riveting psychological uncertainy, this intelligent and riotously satiric production, directed by Brad Rouse, articulates much of...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Loeb's 'Largo' Impresses | 7/29/1994 | See Source »

Pinter produces a modern-day satiric comedy with this setting, pointing out the rampant nature of and numbing feeling which accompanies death. The ironic tone of the play is set with Ben's commentary about what he is reading in the newspaper. During the first few minutes of the play...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Intense, Satiric 'Waiter' Carried By Strong Acting | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

Zelman knows that Gus is not going to set the world on fire with his intellect, but he feels. For this reason, he plays him with the utmost earnestness. He never lets a furrowed brow clear into enlightenment, but instead remains serious about what he is saying. This makes the...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Intense, Satiric 'Waiter' Carried By Strong Acting | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

Look. It is one thing for snobbish European intellectuals to take American trivia seriously. Disneyana is the favorite mirror of America -- succeeding Luigi Barzini's insufficiently satiric suggestion of baseball -- for every European thinker from Umberto Eco on down. It was Eco who in his 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia's Mouse? | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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