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...nineteen Esther can cry and unharbor the funeral she never attended. Like a magnet to its opposite, the daughter need not follow from her life into her father's death. In her own life, though, the mourning was too persistent; Sylvia Plath could find nothing to hold her, no wit or skill greater than her own, no love greater than her own for her father. She killed herself February...
...every author. A childlike romp through the Grimm Brothers' goose-pimply fun house is distinctly different from a childlike romp through aphrodisiacal Jovian glades and bedrooms. It de-eroticizes Ovid. He has been altered, as one says of a cat. Ovid was a great worldly poet and wit. Arnold Weinstein, who freely adapted the Metamorphoses, is an infectious spoofer keenly aware of the uses of anachronism, from which much of the evening's humor arises...
...COLE PORTER. He wrote a valid but entirely different kind of song, in which you take a particular idea and play with it and develop it in terms of cleverness, wit, intellectual or romantic intensity. Essentially, Porter's songs restate ideas over and over again; he was just better at it than the others of his period...
WHEN nothing in your world seems to have much value, humor can carry you through. Like most Restoration comedy, William Wycherley's The Country Wife could hardly take a more cynical view of human nature. But the drama's light wit colors over the dark tone, and this Quincy House production keeps its audience laughing...
...Severed Head leaps for the category and lands in the second. Novelist Iris Murdoch adapted her farce for the stage with wit and observation. Intelligence shone in scene. The film version, written by Frederic Raphael, transfers some of the but none of the craft. Instead, it presents a plot giggling at itself...