Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Buffalo is a baffling play, and not a very good one, either. If Mamet meant to sketch the mean materialism inspired among the lower fringes of a capitalist society, he could have succeeded. But his play stretches for some deeper meaning, and in reaching for that goal topples over, incomplete. It's a shame to waste three fine performances on such a strange play. But the general strength of the production, if not of the play itself, is encouraging, and it is good to see an energetic young professional company set up shop in Cambridge...
Later that same week, Ed got a door slammed in his face, and over Thanksgiving vacation, the police received yet another call about him. The anxiety level among women students fearing attack was high during December--early in the month, Harvard police released a sketch of the suspect showing a black man, tall, and in his early 20's, and many Harvard students seemed to fit the description. There was an explanation as to why women peered out of their peep holes and refused to open the door for Ed. He is black, tall, in his early...
...that the Almighty has never appeared in a very good film, although considering the talent involved in this one--direction by the intermittently brilliant Carl Reiner and a script by the dependably slick Larry Gelbart--Oh God! should have been an irreverent romp. What emerges is an overlong television sketch, a limp, unimaginative, and boring monument to middle-class tolerance; in short, a popular favorite that could set comedy back...
...poor quality of the reproduction has added to the general criticism of the sketch, Kim Fletcher '79 of Leverett House said, "It looks like no one and everyone you know...
Morse said yesterday although the original composite sketch was "fairly clear," he also was not satisfied with the Xeroxed reproduction...