Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slight art form perhaps, but a highly polished one. MTM was the sitcom that was intellectually respectable. The writing, acting and directing on MTM have been the best ever displayed in TV comedy. Owing much to Moore, who always set a tone of perfectionism, the show has been technically superb and beautifully paced. Former CBS Executive James Aubrey used to say, "The American public is something I fly over." But unlike 90% of TV's sitcoms, MTM has always transmitted intelligence, along with a rather unique respect for its characters and its audience. The snorting, hoorawing Archie Bunker...
...Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties sizzles in epigrams and bubbles with life for about another week at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. The Colonial is a superb playhouse, a child's conception of a theatre with gilt boxes and Michelangelo cherubs dancing on the ceiling. They've also got some $4.50 seats, and if you've missed the Tony winner for 1975--take your first chance and the Green Line down...
...offer is hard to resist. How, one might ask, could Adler nominate Eliot's pretentious The Cocktail Party and not his superb Four Quartets? If there is room for the historical musings of Toynbee, why is there no room for Braudel's monumental The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II? And if this list is supposed to update the original of 25 years ago, why does it recognize so few living writers? Bellow and Solzhenitsyn are admirable, but where is the magic of Grass's The Tin Drum or Robert Lowell...
Beth Craig did a superb defense job fronting the SMU giant, Caswell, and reducing her effect on the game to almost nothing. By holding SMU to just one shot each time down the floor, instead of the three or four shots they got each time in the first half, Harvard broke the game wide open...
...lead role. After the opening library scene, the lights dim and the spotlights come out on Carr, an old man in a housecoat who sets the scene and reminisces about the old days in Zurich. The play, but especially this scene, showcases the talents of John Wood, who is superb in the role of Henry Carr. Wood's opening monologue is a stream of one-liners, epigrams, digressions-the saving grace of senile reminisces, he assures us-and judgements-a verbal torrent...