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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature. Notable examples of this sort of humor/social commentary are Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, and Thomas Pynchon's brilliant Gravity's Rainbow. A notable failure of this genre is Thomas Bernhard's The President, currently...
...some sort of political commentary is intended, its meaning is completely obscured by the pointless plot. The President is dead at the end of the play, yet the audience is not really sure who killed him, although we are told that the president's son, one of the anarchists, may be the killer. If so, so what? Is the point then that all repressive regimes deserve to fall, or that morons have no right to power? Or is the president a tragic figure, unable to comprehend the forces that inexorably dictate his destruction, much less his own shattered personal life...
...sort of a second effort trophy," said head coach John Lee to describe Bixby's and Mason's silverware, which was bequeathed in honor of late Harvard wrestler John Imire...
Bringing Up Baby. One of the all-time great screwball comedies. Cary Grant plays a sort of shy paleontologist. But he does, as Katherine Hepburn, a rich young New York thing put it, "look awfully handsome with your glasses off." Kate and Cary spend two hours chasing Baby, Kate's baby leopard, and George, her dog, though Kate of course is on the prowl for bigger game. Howard Hawks directed this refreshingly irrelevant lunacy...
...resembles the practiced patter of a used-clothes saleswomen. "Contemporary" replies the hey-man at the other end of the telephone when you ask what the well-noised jazz-listener will be hearing tomorrow. Contemporary? What's contemporary? The voice will reply--sounding laid-back of course--"Like, uh, sort of late 50's and early 60's--it was too advanced for them then so they didn't appreciate...