Word: slapsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lightness and elegance, even while displaying enormous technical virtuosity. The overture to the show is accompanied by an elaborately intricate dance sequence which conveys the mood of Renaissance Harlem street life, and distinctly resembles Wilson's work in the revival of Guys and Dolls in New York, although less slapstick and faster paced...
...SLAPSTICK by KURT VONNEGUT 243 pages . Delacorte...
Love conquers nothing in Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Instead, love is a strategic withdrawal from a threatening world where even the best intentions can cause suffering and chaos. With Slapstick, that withdrawal seems complete. The novel, a linking of autobiography and fantasy, is an aggressive retreat not only from the complications of society but also from the invention and charm of the author's early novels...
...feeling might be described as the phantom ache an amputee sometimes has where his limb once was. Vonnegut is keenly aware of the separation between his present and his past-the Indianapolis where he grew up surrounded by members of a large, cultured and comfortable German-American family. Indeed, Slapstick begins with a recollection of flying home a few years ago to attend the funeral of a favorite uncle. Predictably, Vonnegut finds the city has become just another "interchangeable part in the American machine...
...Slapstick, Vonnegut...