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...five years the Supreme Court has thrown out Southern convictions for nearly every kind of civil rights demonstration. So last week the court's reversal seemed inevitable in the case of Henry Brown and other CORE demonstrators, whose "standup" in a Clinton, La., public library resulted in their conviction for disturbing the peace...
...more-largely because the Secretary was not a flat-out champion of labor. When Wirtz failed to come out in a full-throated protest against compulsory arbitration in transportation industries during his testimony at congressional hearings, Meany scornfully described him to a friend: "This guy is not a standup guy. He bends...
...just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupi e. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man's Auntie Mame, only successful female among the New Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a "standup" act of one-line gags...
...tragedy as if he were blowing out a candle. Another problem is that Lerner seems to stop shy of the most tragic moments not only Arthur's death but Guinevere's trial and rescue, which, in the script as it stood last week, was only related in an awkward "standup oratorio." Perhaps L. & L.'s biggest problem is to find a way of telling this climactic scene visually or dramatically...
...removed from the old standup, joke-book comedians, they mostly do set pieces that are almost playlets. Using the telephone as a trademark prop, Shelley Berman prefers to find his material in the living room rather than the newspaper. Now a father talking to his daughter before her first date, he tells her that a car is a motel room on wheels; now Dr. Sprocket, child psychologist, he tells a patient's mother: "I know your little boy. His name is Oedipus." (While Sahl's four published recordings have sold only 125,000 copies, the closer...