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...show, and men just running around in drag and telling silly jokes isn't enough. I've never been to a Pudding show before so I can't tell, but I hear plot has usually been weak; this year it's about as thin as a slide-specimen. Innocent Kitty Kaboodle comes to New York during the Depression with hopes of instant stardom, or at least she says she's marked it on her calendar. Kitty falls in with other down-and-outers in a chorus-line--including Flo Gently, the first lady of the American stage ("The very first...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Guess You Had to Be There | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Zonker "flaky"? Only "a spaghetti-haired specimen of the drug culture"? Zonker Harris is the most appealing character of Doonesbury's world, the most fully developed character, and (one suspects) in personality the alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 1, 1976 | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Zonker Harris, a spaghetti-haired specimen of the drug culture who carries on Socratic dialogues with his philodendron, gets busted for possession, discovers that the prosecutor has bugged his room, and tells the hidden microphone: "I hate grass. I just get high on life! And America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOONESBURY: Drawing and Quartering for Fun and Profit | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Although I appreciate your unequivocal "No" answer to the question of my alleged presence in Dallas at the time of J.F.K.'s murder, I would like to point out that my noninvolvement rests not only on "drastic differences" between the specimen photographs, but more conclusively upon the sworn testimony of several witnesses who confirm that I was in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 22, 1963. It is a physical law that an object can occupy only one space at one time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 15, 1975 | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...production of Moonchildren never fully creates the illusion of an initial community of friends, so the dissolution of that community is less heart-rending than it should be. Nevertheless, this production is enlivened by a few very funny moments, and standout performances by Diane Sherlock as a bizarre specimen of hippiedom and David Moore as Bob, who gives rise to the only moments of real tension in the play...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: THE STAGE | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

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