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...intended "to introduce the carnival to the social scientist." Three of the contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every summer...
...initiation into life. As this provincial survives one mindblower after another, stiff primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta tells him that his legal mother was in fact a virgin, Wordsworth substitutes that woman's ashes with cannabis, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum coated nipples in the spotlights. Aunt Augusta is Henry's wicked fairy--in the beginning a brazen hussy, in the end a worn out bronze he has come to love...
Hynes set Harvard on its way with a short-side goal only 55 seconds after the opening faceoff. In the next ten minutes referee Bob Barry banished Hynes to the box twice, and fans in section 18, vociferous even with the demise of the Stripper, called for Barry's replacement by official Giles Treadgold, who ales was in Hamilton...
...same sharp style that Franken displays as he switches accents in spinning out dialogue, the other members of the cast play their assorted roles. Louise Claps condenses single, clear emotions in her parts which range from Bruce's comfortable aunt to a prison matron. Sue Brown moves from stripper to 1950's sweetheart to prim court reporter. Handicapped with a lesser variety among their bit parts, the men were adequate; Perry Emerson, who had the most opportunity for diversity, welched on his challenge by playing all his parts alike...
...when Conductor Erich Leinsdorf lowered his baton for the overture. Tenor Hugh Beresford wandered over a barren wooden platform; instead of a balletic orgy, there was a huge human brain populated with frightening, dim figures miming psychiatric problems ranging from infantilism to sadomasochism. Venus arrived looking like a Reeperbahn stripper...