Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something less than that, and something more. His column walks the high wire between light humor and substantive comment, a balancing act so punishingly difficult that in the entire country there are not a dozen men and women who can be said to have the hang of the thing. Of these good humor men and women, Baker is consistently the most literate. What impresses Pulitzer judges and other journalists about Baker's high-wire heroics is not simply the talent that they require, though the requirement is very high, but Baker's extraordinary range...
...doctoring is complicated or dramatic. Robbins gave a lift to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by pushing for a jolly new opening number, Comedy Tonight. In some cases, the job is simple reorganization. After the current Broadway revival of Whoopee!, based on the 1928 musical, was slammed in St. Louis, Playwright Jonathan Reynolds (Yankees 3 Boston 0 Top of the Seventh) received an S O S. "In the opening scene, for instance, the main character, Henry Williams, was lost in the crowd, so I gave him more lines," says Reynolds. "I mainly reorganized the play...
Despite the desperation surrounding a play in trouble, doctors have strict rules of courtesy. "The first thing you find out is if the author knows that someone is being brought in," says Larry Gelbart (Sly Fox), whose efforts on Ballroom were not enough to keep it from closing. "You owe that to a colleague." Jerome Robbins notes ruefully, "I've needed help...
...Buchwald, humorist, at Georgetown University: "I know many of you are bitter at our generation for using all of the oil reserves. But I would like to remind you of one thing. It was our oil and our gas, and we could do anything we wanted with it. Your generation has to find its own oil and gas reserves...
JAKE'S THING by Kings ley Amis Viking; 276 pages...