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After each skit one of the actors presented an unrelated news item from what the troupe calls the "Is Dis a System? Department." These items generally revealed the inconsistent, contradictory way in which the capitalist system often works. For instance, one such item related how the president of a local engineering firm had gone on record to recommend that the Arab boycott of businesses dealing with Israel should be strongly opposed. Then the official, who is Jewish, signed a substantial contract with Saudi Arabia in which his company complied with the terms of the boycott. After this was announced...
This superficial political analysis did not damage the production too much, because each of these inter-skit presentations is brief. But some of the longer skits had more serious problems. One, entitled "The Fuehrer's New Clothes," attempted to equate the 1930's Nazi persecution of the Communists with present-day West German discrimination against leftists. The argument seemed to depend mainly on the use of German accents by the actors...
...speakers aren't really Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Diana Rigg and Tony Britton just sound like them in an upcoming BBC comedy skit wickedly titled "Public Lives." The Liz-Dick nuptial parody is part of a six-week series starring the British-born Rigg, 38, who also plays English Actress Celia Johnson in the 1946 movie Brief Encounter. Rigg is especially proud of her transformation into Taylor. Says she: "I did the major makeup work myself. The black wig, the beauty spot-and showing off the cleavage...
...student skit triggered the final crisis, and the coup. Selecting a youth who resembled Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, the leftists staged a mock hanging. Gruesome pictures of the charade were splashed all over Bangkok's daily papers that night. By dawn, an enraged mob of 10,000 rightists armed with rifles, swords and clubs began attacking Thammasat. They were met by M-16 gunfire and grenades. Then the troops moved...
...shrewdest among them had their act well in place and The Speech well learned. They solved the problem of television, with its terrible rate of consuming new material, by going back to the era of vaudeville acts, when Burns and Allen or Weber and Fields could play the same skit week after week from coast to coast, testing new lines, honing the delivery, refining the timing. Reporters were reduced to making a commotion out of minor variations the candidate might try in The Speech...