Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to die from starvation in her late husband's tomb; Doto, her feeble-witted and man-hungry servant who has decided to die from physical and sexual starvation with her mistress; and Tegeus, or as he is called by Dynamane, Cromus, a steedly Hoplite who blunders into the whole affair and falls in love with Dynamane. Using this simple plot and character framework, Fry works much mischief on the classical tragic genre with overblown and thoroughly ludicrous speeches on honor, fate, love and life. His parodies of Greek tragic conventions sometimes tend to be either too subtle...
...Meanwhile, the supporting cast, led by the gum-cracking, orgasm-seeking Phil major from Brooklyn College and Great Neck, Doris Levine (played nicely by Jaleh Poorooshasb), camps and hams through Allen's inspired lunacy. Every new character who walks onstage builds the madness to a higher pitch until the whole stage explodes in a riot of screaming neurotics. Particularly funny among the crowds of people who come on stage are David Margolin and Bonnie Freid as the Fates, Bob and Wendy; the chorus of Rich Buck and Andy Pugh, and Tom Saunders as Lorenzo Miller, who, in a wonderful game...
...There are a whole range of options available to us." FTC spokesman Charles C. Shepherd said yesterday. "We can publish it fully or not at all, and everything in between," he said...
...quotation seems like the moral at the end of the Jonestown fable, the epitaph of the whole affair...
...Friedkin told an audience of 300 last night that he made his latest film, "The Brink's Job" as a tribute to the men who pulled the robbery. "I really found I admired them," he said at the Hasty Pudding Theater. "They had a sense of humor about the whole thing...