Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT WOODY ALLEN brought to the movie, Renata Adler to the novel and Valerie Harper to the sit-com, playwright John Guare has now brought to the stage--that many-headed artistic monster, the Manhattan neurosis. "Bosoms and Neglect," Guare's newest play, is about therapy. It's about loneliness and "5 a.m. friends." It's about the fulminations of intelligent but broken people who are oppressed by the four walls of their Fifth Avenue apartments. Though a bit tired, these themes can usually withstand a warming over, and Guare's is articulate and wry. The trouble comes when...
...founded for the exclusive purpose of singling out and punishing students who actively protested University involvement in the war and other questionable activities, this punishment being legitimatized by the collaboration of their student peers on the committee. Despite Dean Epps's continued attempts to breathe life into the monster (perhaps in the hope of vindicating his public position of neutrality throughout the war period), the students of Harvard and Radcliffe have never repudiated the student activism of the late sixties by a docile acceptance of the CRR. And, as Professor Wald said last spring, "I hope to God they never...
...like that scene in the "Bride of Frankenstein" when the monster talks," he said. "Look, people are afraid to come forward...
...Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Ernie and Bert. "My little sister watches it..." So buy the album for her. Let her reap the joy from Sesame Street's own "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The first day: the cookie monster gets "one delicious Coooookie." The ninth day: Big Bird gets "nine pounds of bird seed." Ha-ha, but no--there's a lot of pathos here. Please God, Ernie wants six rubber duckies...
...gifts for the youngster, they all have a hook. Somewhere, deep in their past, there is a superhero. Or even better, a supervillain. Darth Vader Death Star space stations are hot this year, even at $40, a clerk explains. And why not--they've got an Alien Trash Monster, a Rope Swing to Safety, an exploding laser cannon and even a "working elevator...