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...comes Jack Harnes, a Manhattan internist, who persuaded, the staid Journal of the American Medical Association to publish what may be the last word on the subject. In "The Foreskin Saga," Harnes puts the "debate" into perspective in a strikingly successful spoof of the ponderous,reports that usually appear in medical publications (among earlier titles of serious articles: "The Rape of the Phallus," "Penile Plunder"). Believing that the circumcision controversy is ludicrous and the sensual argument unprovable, Harnes merely concocted some insights and phony research...
...fancy wall friezes; a broken wine bottle is redesigned as a stunning rose vase; and huge clusters of beer bottles are glued together to make abstract sculptures. On one wall, a shadow-box assemblage of coffee-can keys and lead wine labels forms a witty collage of "medals"-a spoof on Allner's many legitimate art prizes. Other elegant murals and sculptures turn out, on inspection, to be composed of Styrofoam egg cartons and packing materials that Allner particularly admires. "Besides," he wryly adds, "the foam looks better than the cracked plaster behind...
...moral equivalent of the magic kazoo (which equally intrigues lamb) and the aesthetic substitute for the nose of the noiseless Shaded Veiled Lady (who, of course, also fascinates our hero). Very illuminating. But May Wish's commentary does make one point clear: the play builds on obscurity as a spoof of dramatic convention. Iamiguous lives up to his name, and his lady could not be more enigmatic...
Bech: A Book, by John Updike. A "famous Jewish novelist" on a cultural-exchange mission behind the Iron Curtain occasions a spoof of the government-intellectual complex...
Present deponent will testify no further as to the plot. To say more would be a crime against pleasure and surprise. Among its bonuses, Sleuth is a consummate spoof of thrillers, as keen in satire as suspense. The evening moves from something like the erudite nonchalance of S.S. Van Dine to the venomous gaiety of the "get-the-guests" sequence in Virginia Woolf. In the key roles, Quayle and Baxter are lithe and lethal...