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...account, by a Jeffrey Zucker, of a women's ice hockey game with Colby in Waterville, Maine (2/23/83) reflects a point of view I like to call "urban provincialism." I refer to his lead: "There is not much going on in Waterville, Maine, this time of year. The most exciting show to hit town in days rolled through yesterday And that was the Harvard women's ice hockey team...
...Zucker overly flatters himself and demonstrates a conceit that does not conform to the facts...
...Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who launched the hit comedy movie Airplane!, are in charge here, and they bring the same sophisticated silliness to such TV cliches as slow-motion deaths and freeze-frame endings. Not the least of the new program's blessings is that it has no laugh track. Appreciative viewers will surely supply their...
...lifted by a political cartoonist who saw in his comical flag-garbed figure the embodiment of the American spirit. The Mudhead Masks, a Cambridge based troupe, are clearly adopt at the kind of fluid hijinks and simple, obvious laugh grabbers that keep this stuff bouncing along, and David Zucker, as Dan, is a superb enough clown to carry the evening singlehandedly, much as the old entertainer might have done. His command of face and voice and body are spellbinding enough to focus the silliness. When he is on stage you can forget to wonder what was so interesting about...
...Zucker does, after all, occasionally have to go offstage to take a breather. Why does that silly papier-mache horsehead keep bounding up to the audience? Why is one fellow sitting on a straw-stack on the edge of the stage, strumming an unidentifiable instrument and looking so mellow that spectators two rows back started betting on when he would fall asleep? Why does Dr. Paradisio (Tamara Jenkins) keep screaming at both real and imaginary audiences about the healing powers of ga-a-a-a-arglin' oil? Why on earth does one actress spend a full half-hour...