Word: warholian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talent is apparent in a number of details: fine readings, well-pointed jokes, carefully arranged stage groupings. But something too much of his ability has been devoted to an attempt to avoid a confrontation with the text. His interpolations (among them a parody soap opera by distinguished Warholian, Gerard Malanga, and a number of creaky, smutty japes) are as distortive as they are entertaining. His choices in directing characters (especially the daughter of the family, who Mary Moss portrays with special spirit as a flaming youth, in passionate rebellion against adult American materialism and hypocrisy) are well-realized and consistent...