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...Apple Tree is based on three stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stoekton and Jules Feiffer, but any trace of these authors' original intent has been systematically expunged in the adaptation by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Hamick. The first segment. "The Diary of Adam and Eve," describes the problems of setting up the world's very first household. These problems, however, are in significant when compared to Eve's (Debby Rayson's) inability to find a register in which her troublesome voice will be content to stay. Eve weasels her way into Adam's hut, and finally into his heart...
...carries the perennial message of spring, millions of cyclists will be reiterating those precepts, echoing the only literary work in which they shine. In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain recalls the anachronistic day on which King Arthur was saved from his enemies: "By George...
...Okie from Muskogee would rather die than appear in anything unAmerican. No sweat. Huckleberry Finn contains just the role for Merle Haggard. On March 25, over ABC, he will make his dramatic debut in a TV movie of Mark Twain's classic. He will play Duke, the sweet-talking con man. His country music fans may be disappointed. "I wouldn't want to mix singin' in with the actin'," explains Merle. "That way, if I mess up, I can at least salvage something for my career...
...crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well-drawn strokes. Two new paperback editions underscore the point. On the far side of history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and the Tammany Tiger. Nast's gentler conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously ape. On the near side, Herblock 's State...
...From the beginning of the Republic," House Speaker Nicholas Longworth once complained, "it has been the duty of every freeborn humorist to make jokes at us." He may have had in mind Mark Twain's crack that Congress is our only native American criminal class. But there have been times in recent years when the entire nation could have been indicted for contempt of Congress...