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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May's Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next are a happy combination of funny and clever one-acters. Both plays are directed by Miss May with her usual wit and comic perception...
PRESENT AT THE CREATION, by Dean Acheson. Harry Truman's Secretary of State, in these well-written memoirs, recalls the formative years of the cold war with much wit, knowledge and insight...
...Inauguration, he conscientiously courted Senators, attending each noon's opening of business, presiding in the chair to learn parliamentary procedures and school himself in Senate ways. He lunched with members in the Senators' dining room. Most important, he flattered Senators by his deference, thereby convincing them of his wit and discernment. He worked so hard at his homework during those first months that he burst a blood vessel...
...which a plaque is unveiled in honor of the dead playwright, who has presumably gone to the grave without revealing the existence of his last prophetic play. The dialogue rains poisoned darts on love, marriage, friendship and bourgeois values, making Cher Antoine a precision-tooled piece of lapidary Gallic wit...
...consider: Mazursky has directed the picture in the best Hollywood comedy tradition. A superficial tradition, yes-but not without its own special kind of wit and pleasantries. Like Robert Aldrich (in such kitsch as The Legend of Lylah Clare ). Mazursky has learned how to give vulgarity a good name...