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...lame even for Simon in a nostalgic haze. One character is a boorish Italian stud with a penchant for malapropisms (he calls Roman gladiators "gladiolas"), and the play's comic piece de resistance is, so help me, a bird's funeral. Simon, like Mamet, is content to trot out his characters two at a time for a series of unfulfilling, barely connected dialogues...
...then, in 1974, Parker went into a kind of hibernation. "I lost the voice" is how Westlake puts it. That voice, at any rate. He continued to write novels at a brisk trot, winning three Edgar Awards and occasionally lurching cheerfully off track with an unclassifiable detour, like Kahawa, which he claims is Swahili for "We couldn't think of a title." It's a caper tale, set in 1982, darker than Dortmunder, lighter than Parker, about some likable bandits who steal a trainload of coffee from Idi Amin, in Uganda...
Haynie and Reitman were winners in the Adncaned Walk-Trot-Canter and Beginner Walk-Trot respectively...
...talk of booze gets me frustrated about the country's outrageous liquor laws--and more than a little bit thirsty--so on Thursday night I trot on over to Charlie's Kitchen, one of the Square's historic taverns...
...this move, the editors squander an early opportunity to draw attention to the substantive issues the council faces this term, opting instead to trot out an argument which is neither new nor informative...