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...special gift of David Rabe's, Harriet (Elizabeth Wilson) is one of those mothers who likes to think that she only "lives for others"-as selflessly as a vampire bat. David's younger brother Rick (Cliff DeYoung) pops in and out of the house with a vacuous "Hi Mom, hi Dad; bye Mom, bye Dad" that might be a recorded announcement. At the still center of this air-conditioned hell stands David, graver than a Greek chorus in his comments, with the memory-made-visible of the Vietnamese girl (Asa Gim) he had once loved. She glides through...
...Underlying it all is a supreme non-intelligence, the John Bullish buck-up-chaps mentality. The Maid expresses it well when she looks at a content Mr. and Mrs. Martin--"Let's not try to know. Let's leave things as they are." The way things are, however, is vacuous and inane, shot through with hypocrisy and hatred. The movement in the play from banal dialogue interspersed only by a few absurdities, (Mrs. Smith tells the Martins that her husband wets his pants; Mr. Smith says that a good doctor always dies with his patient, as a captain always goes...
...Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail. The candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and the elders of the Church of Christ, Computer. The trouble is that Mulligan's youth image is endangered because his 68-year-old mother-in-law is having an affair with a 70-year-old man. Their attraction must be cooled, because to the young American voter, any suggestion...
Described in terms of what it is not, Don Judd's sculpture must inevitably sound cold and vacuous-a Pandora's box of absences. But Judd, at 42, is possibly the most influential sculptor of his generation. His austere and intensely deliberate art has proved a disinfectant, sluicing away the organic waste that tended in the early '60s to encumber current ideas about sculpture in the U.S. and abroad. His work is now being celebrated at the Pasadena Art Museum by an exhibition of his boxes, stacks and progression pieces organized by Art-forum...
...takers, that vast locust combine, play Iago. The prefight publicity has made it impossible for Frazier ever to be champ to black America and the rest of the world. Rather than revealing him as another black man of different convictions from Ali, the PR portrayed him as a vacuous white hope in blackface...