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...picture of Glashow and Howard M. Georgi III, associate professor of Physics and frequent collaborator with Glashow. Georgi and Glashow face each other in the picture, bemused. A cartoon-type bubble pasted on the picture depicts them berating each other with the caustic phrase, "You dummy!" A sketch of Einstein and an enlarged photograph of a delicate white web of spirals on a black background decorate the fourth wall. Cross-country skis stand in the corner...
...plays a schoolteacher who seduces a pupil, then is surprised and caned by the school principal The longest number includes a rape fantasy, wrestling women, and the punishment of a rapist by whipping and crucifixion. Chip Durgom, a small, bearded man of 28, stars in The Astronaut, a sketch involving a woman's fantasy about shrinking a man to the height of only a few inches, which then shades into a man's fantasy about returning to the womb. In a chicken fantasy, Durgom plays a squawking bird about to be roasted and carved by Big Mama. Like...
...handles her satire of women as sex objects with a deft control of her visual material, a collage of advertising images and photographs. But the stress on sadism and bodily functions is insistently strident. Goldman, an Israeli living in London, succeeds only in making her audience uncomfortable with a sketch that involves a humiliating striptease by a skinny ballerina and two fat women. The final shot of the film reveals that the members of the audience, who have been shouting "Take it off!" to the women on stage, have also exposed themselves. It is unclear exactly who or what...
...second act begins with a neat comic sketch called "Reminiscence of a Schoolmaster," who says of Thomas that "his first name was uncommon, but he was not." The show's most prolonged success, however, is Williams's rendition of the very funny "Adventures in the Skin Trade," during which his capacity for mimicry and elegant comic timing find their fullest expression...
...crowd of human reasons for stopping at this wide spot in the road and listening well, even if Jimmy had been born in Savannah and was not their pride. He clearly is and they all call him Jimmy, to your face and his-no reverence yet-as they sketch in his family backward from him. For if you are quiet and let them tell what they need to tell, not what you think you want, then the story is family, unendingly...