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...simplest and best way would be by having reviewers actually see a production. No, I don't mean walk to a theater, pick up their tickets, gaze at their programs, and wait for the curtain to go up. I mean see a production: see it from its earliest stages and stay with it through opening night. At Harvard a hodge-podge of theatrical groups exists, and yet the actual phases of production display a remarkable similarity across the board. If a critic wants to write truly knowledgeable reviews, that critic must begin with the institutional structures that fund theater...
...imagine what happens when Allen slips on one of those banana peels. It is almost impossible, however, to convey the intricacy of his comic inventiveness, the shrewdness with which he sustains his comic lines. The simplest measure of Sleeper's success is perhaps the fact that one recalls it not by quoting Allen's one-liners but by trying to describe-inadequately-his beautifully built visual gags...
...official name is "the Workshop," and it is run by a rather smarmy doctor and a highly officious nurse. The atmosphere is somewhat reminiscent of the mental asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The men do the simplest kind of make-work. While their presence is voluntary, they are psychically crippled by a desperate need for safety and a deep fear of being objects of ridicule, scorn or pity in the outside world...
...eight-track tapes and plays them on his yacht"), even sporting: "Nixon was watching the Redskins football game on TV. He had the tapes in his hands, and when the other team scored a winning touchdown, he got so angry that he tore the tapes to pieces." Perhaps the simplest reply: "Nixon knew that sooner or later he would have to eat his words on Watergate, so he ate the tapes...
...holy bird thought to have first been discovered by the White Knight of Sanders. Even the simplest peasants undertook frequent pilgrimages to its shrines, hoping to bring home enough bones for the whole family...