Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything but sell popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...
...more leisure for family life. There are grumblings about insufficient money for playing 200 concerts a year. Heath described himself as netting a little less each year than a New York sanitation worker. Social and financial exigencies aside, human tensions have doubtless taken a toll. At a post-concert supper, the four guests of honor mingled politely, then submerged into separate pockets of gloom...
...Reed can hardly be accused of eye rolling and cakewalking for his supper. His angers and resentments are sheathed in intelligence, learning, scatological wit and showmanship. One thinks of Redd Foxx before he was San-fordized, or Philip Roth confronting his middle-class American Jewish background in ways that have been judged, perhaps too hastily, as self-hateful and tasteless. Likewise, many blacks may find themselves both amused and offended by The Last Days of Louisiana Red, a combination circus freak show, detective story, Negro Dead Sea Scroll and improvised black-studies program...
...term co-existence, an existence that excludes off-Islanders. Aliens are not wise to the shallowness of water over there or the good fishing over here. Islanders know, and wouldn't be foolish enough to ground their boats, pick up poison ivy, or try to fillet an eel for supper...
...substance of the first two-thirds of this one-man show-a toilet-training routine, assorted scatology, corrosively Jewish anti-Semitic byplay-could no more find its way into print in most publications now than when Bruce first delivered it in the '50s and '60s. Most supper-club managers would still label it as "sick...