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...erupted volcanically in Inadmissible, and Alan Bates (TIME, Nov. 6) is a flood tide of brilliance in Butley. The two plays and the two characters have a good deal in common. One feels that if Maitland and Butley could harness their energy and alter the direction of their venomous wit, they could put their lives straight in no time...
...eloquent, spellbinding monologues, while Britain's Simon Gray, author of last season's transvestite farce, Wise Child, is more the fencing master of brief, bitchy repartee. All of the fun is put-down humor, incessant gamesmanship, at which the British are virtually unbeatable. Butley's eviscerating wit is cool, cruel and precise, which does not prevent it from being unutterably funny...
Professor Bowersock's is correct in regard to the number of convictions. But he has oversimplified the other "factual errors." To wit: Messing's suspension was for the remainder of her undergraduate years. Since most undergraduates never attend Harvard graduate school, it is fair to term her suspension "indefinite...
When the New York Times queried its correspondents in search of some campaign wit, one reporter replied last week that "your request for a memo on Nixon's humor is probably the most humorous aspect of the entire situation." It has been that kind of oh-so-serious campaign, and even half a laugh is scarce in most reporters' copy. Fortunately, readers of the Times and other papers can resort to Columnists Russell Baker and Art Buchwald, who seem able to coax a smile and sometimes even a belly laugh out of the most somber events...
...great number of points in this letter misrepresent the real impact of the new life insurance and pension plan. To wit...