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...around for a long, long time." Dennis is starring in Absurd Person Singular, her first Broadway hit in ten years. Her success, along with the return of several other top actors, marks an unexpected renaissance of Broadway. After years of frustration over a Great White Way beset by urban squalor, rocketing costs and deserting audiences, Broadway is enjoying the kind of lively season that seemed to have disappeared permanently. Grosses have been of record proportions. Advance sales for Bette...
Readers who ignored Burgess's cheeky advice may remember that the eponymous poet, F.X. Enderby, was a fairly unprepossessing fellow. But due to a surfeit of British cooking and intractable intestines, he frequently emitted noxious sounds from both ends. He lived, moreover, in animal squalor, reclusively scribbling in the bathroom and tossing sections of his poem The Pet Beast into his otherwise unused bathtub...
...failed satire of the transcriber's inadequacy, with misspellings like ecommunionicle, kwelled, teetotal Aryan, and Alice in Windowland. And the final chapter, some sort of object-lesson conducted from the future by Educational Time Trips Inc. to teach children about the poet Enderby and about the beauty and squalor of New York and how it represents the human condition, is not only self-serving (it implies Burgess/Enderby will endure the test of time), but too obvious and forced...
Nixon gambled desperately on releasing his transcripts; it was not much of a gamble though, with the Supreme Court, 8 to 0, forcing the issue. The tapes, even in edited form, revealed an atmosphere of startling moral squalor in the White House, a spirit of callousness and contempt for law that repelled even Nixon's steadiest allies. The House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings showed to a nation skeptical about Congress a group of earnest men and women trying to achieve fairness in a historic and profoundly disagreeable job. At last Nixon was forced to yield up what...
...dismal science of economics has no more grim indicator of what is happening in the nation than the number of men who are forced to find refuge, as best they can, in the squalor of Manhattan's Bowery. This week the city-operated Men's Shelter in the slum will give Thanksgiving dinners to some 2,000 people, an increase of more than 50% over 1973's figure. The number who are seeking out the shelter day to day is up 22% in a year's time and includes the largest group of young men seen...