Word: simps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oasis for gentle daydreamers. It is a foxhole of the color war-full of venomous nightmares, thwarted aspirations and trigger-quick tempers, a place where the napalm of hurt has seared each man's skin. The jukebox rumbles with hard rock; a dope-addled white simp serves drinks when he is not rattling drumsticks along the bar in a syncopated frenzy...
...soliloquies are delivered as if Hamlet were in desperate need of geriatric drugs. Rabb is too monotonous for eloquence and too weary for anger. The rest of the cast is almost uniformly inept. Horatio is played like a lost Boy Scout, Gertrude as a matronly simp and Ophelia as an epileptic. Only Richard Easton's Claudius has the dignity of a solid stage presence, and Philip Minor's First Gravedigger has wry antic authority. In view of his acting and directing, perhaps Ellis Rabb should really be listed as the First Gravedigger...
...confessed that her go-go had gone years ago, but wondered if it was all right for her to watch anyway. And last week there was a letter from Cavett's idiot cousin Clarence. He is the simp who lost his job at the St. Louis Zoo after he decided to run the place on the honor system. Recently, reports Cavett, Clarence registered his own feeble protest to the Viet Nam war. He boiled his draft card...