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Well, if the truth is to be revealed, President Bok did not go 4-0 last week. He did, however, manage a 3-1 showing, which is nothing to scoff at, especially when, as he admitted, "I have to pick Harvard." That's funny...
...Federal investigators scoff at the report that Godfather Carmine Galante, 67, the nation's most powerful Mafia leader, has ordered mobsters into the hunt. He has other worries. He was on crutches last week because rival gangsters assaulted him in Brooklyn as a warning to keep his fingers put of the gambling casinos soon to open in Atlantic City. Then FBI agents served him with a subpoena that requires he appear this week before a Miami federal grand jury probing mob infiltration of businesses there...
Social critics tend to scoff at theme-park patrons as passive non-participants in plastic fantasy. Obviously, such critics have never been tugged by tireless children through seven-plus hours (the average time spent per park per family) of short rides and long lines, mini-zoos and maxi-queues, live shows, deadly lines, fast food, slow lines, indigestion, blurred vision and pedialgia (sore feet). In fact, the vast majority of the 80 million people who will visit theme parks this year are involved, tireless and eclectic in their pursuit of pleasure...
...production this strong, of course adds to the play's depressing impact, for a subject this unsettling at times begs for a technical slip-up to relieve the tension. Here the gay jokes supply the only possible relief: you can either laugh at them or scoff at them, deciding that they undermine the play's deeper solemnity. But Herbert still means above all to lay bare the barbarous code that prisoners live under--and what it means for men of sensibility to succumb, or not to succumb, to that code. And if you let it, this production brings home that...
...well: huddling in a mass, journeying in a chain of linked arms, imitating birds and horses and animal-demons. Yet the logic of how one section plays off against the next is puzzling. What sort of beings are these--ancient creatures, spirits, dream images? It's easy to scoff at program notes that read, "In a sense it's a journey into ourselves"--until you lie awake recalling the shaman's grimacing trance-like stare...