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Berman and Pulcini have devised a perky-quirky style to tell Pekar's story, blending documentary material, comic panels and some editing tricks to create a kind of bipolar movie, not exactly haha funny but true to life--at least, to life on that unlevel playing field where Pekar (and millions like him) does his level best to keep going. --By Richard Schickel
...Tuesday, it was centrist John Breaux, and he doesn't sound like he's alone. "If it was up for a vote in its current form, I would vote against it," he told reporters. "Many of us have concluded that it creates a very unlevel playing field between the two parties and I don't think that's what we should...
...They just want to come in and not be subjected to any of the rules other cabs have to follow," said the aide, who requested anonymity. "It's really an unlevel playing field...
What do these celebrated Steigian brain scramblers share with each other, and with most of the rest of the populace? They are conspicuously rational people doing their unlevel best to become less rational. In so doing they are playing out cameo roles in what Dr. David Cooper calls the "Madness Revolution." Cooper is another determined irrationalist, a psychiatrist who frequently envies his patients. Together with British Psychiatrist R.D. Laing, he has composed a sort of "power of positive nonthinking" -a popular ideology of madness. Works like The Politics of Experience (Laing) and The Death of the Family (Cooper) codify...
...tawdry austerity of a Times Square hotel room. It is a hilarious and heartbreaking scene, and belongs triumphantly to Margaret Leighton. She slugs down one whisky after another, and dances like a puritan posing as a pagan. "This is rather exciting, really," she says in an unlevel voice that slides precariously from jolly-good-sport toward hysteria...