Word: stomachal
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...course, you have to have an appetite for slapstick if you're to stomach it at all, but that's not really asking too much. Here, the energy of Coe's direction finds its just rewards and her complicated feats of staging can only improve in timing and finesse as the play continues in its run. Joining Brock (who, to his credit, goes so far as to roll down an entire flight of stairs) are Penny Goslin as his fiancee, Sylvia Kingsbury as a neighboring old lady and Tim Clark as the prospective father. All three manage to match Brock...
...Modest Proposal" that "a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." Let those who will, stomach this solution...
...Stomach Ailments. According to a series of surveys, the number of Japanese workers who show preliminary symptoms of neurosis has trebled from 3% to 9% since 1961. One psychiatrist says that about one-third of the salaried work force exhibits these symptoms. In one large corporation, 23.6% of the workers who did not report to work during 1970 complained of stomach ailments, which some psychologists link to nervous tension...
...Symphonic Marching Band Ensemble and Dance Troupe. Perhaps it's the minever Cheever complex. The Big Red band not only plays in tune (unusual for Ivy halftime shows), it dances, high-steps, goose steps, pirrouettes, clicks it heels together, and throws its chest out and its stomach in while forming a waving American flag in a salute to Irving Berlin. Poor Cornell bandies. Big Ten rejects. They are the Bob Blackman's of the Ivy musical world...
...Clanking Robots. Paolozzi's work has always displayed an obsessive consistency of theme, even to those who in the '40s and '50s could not stomach it. Massculture artifacts are common coin in gallery art today; they were not so when Paolozzi, working in Paris, produced a whole series of collages scissored from American magazines-cover blondes from pulp thrillers, bombers and Jell-O from LIFE. Fifteen years ahead of time he predicted the grotesque iconography of lushness, repetition and violence that American artists would eventually discover in their own culture. In 1952 he helped form the Independent...