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...many drivers, says John Bell, owner of a Mobil station in Lexington, Mass., "have tried every trick in the book to beat the system, from 'My wife is about to give birth' to 'My daughter is sick.' It's incredible the sob stories you hear." In Wilkes-Barre, Pa. a woman argued for five minutes at pumpside that eight was not an even but an odd number. In San Diego, bribery reared...
...with which to play the cops-and-robbers game. In practice, however, The Magician's sleight of hand is only a shade more unbelievable than its slight-of-wit plots. In one recent episode, Bixby rescued a kidnaped blonde nightclub singer whose will to live he had once (sob!) magically restored after she had been scarred in a fire-aided, of course, by the deductive wizardry of his "paraplegic genius" sidekick. Another episode began with Bixby in love with a sweet young thing who turned out to be masquerading under a fake identity with the help of the Government...
WHILE IT MAY NOT guarantee talent, sincerity deserves an ear. But dirges to the lost innocence of our psychedelic years have been droning for some time now and one more heartfelt sob on the subject risks a poor audience: the ear has tuned...
When I mourn on stage they sob in the balcony...
...reduces everyone and everything to a sodden, nerveless pulp. O'Neill transposed the Oresteia-the legend of the doomed Greek house of Atreus-to post-Civil War New England and laced it with Freudianism. O'Neill never achieves the catharsis of pity and terror, only the strangulated sob of a guilty Christian conscience: "I believed in heaven. Now I know there is only hell...