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...this week, either, just the first part, which is about the Garden of Eden and includes a lot of wit, occasional profundity and something about some men seeing things that never were and saying why not--that line often used to get attributed to Robert F. Kennedy '48. Opens tonight at 7:30 at the Loeb Ex; tickets are free, as usual...
...apologetic than before, but still combative at times. She was jolted by Mrs. Volner's opening reminder that she had a constitutional right to remain silent, and that anything she said could possibly be used against her in future proceedings. Yet she remained cool enough to display her wit. Asked why she hired Rhyne, she replied with a smile: "There aren't many attorneys left around town...
...production may not live up to the material, but the experience of so much concentrated wit is worth your time. The stage is lined with potted plants bearing toasted cheese sandwiches. It is rumored that LaZebnik's next project is a musical adaptation of Hamlet. If you miss this one, stick around for that Shakespeherian...
...flooding the Plymouth Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers. Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running a two-course restaurant on the English moors. They make these and other unlikely subjects unconscionably funny...
...special haughty flair for alienating the public) and her cousin the Duke of Kent (who is known in court circles as "the chinless wonder"). Like her father, Prince Philip, Anne has always enjoyed needling reporters and the English paparazzi. Unlike her father, she seems to have no saving wit. When she fell off her horse during a jumping competition in Kiev last August, she angrily turned on the watching reporters: "Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not seriously hurt...