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...under the direction of Lisi Fishman, the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Dramatic Society's production of Broadway Bound emphasizes the dramatic, rather than the comic, aspects of Simon's play. The performances of Jodi Kanter, Jeff Golden and Jeremy Blumenthal as Eugene's parents and brother are riveting...
TREMORS. Kevin Bacon fights off an attack of 30-ft.-long earthworms in this crowd-pleasing sci-fi flick. Shrewdly written, energetically directed and played with high comic conviction, Tremors is bound to become a cult classic...
VINELAND by Thomas Pynchon (Little, Brown; $19.95). In his first novel since Gravity's Rainbow (1973), a major writer turns his attention to all manner of American zaniness and produces a soaring, comic and visionary tale...
With justification. Burnham, a veteran investigative reporter and author (The Rise of the Computer State), suggests that the IRS frequently uses its extraordinary powers of coercion in a presumptuous and reckless manner. He illustrates the charge with numerous cases, a few obviously selected for comic relief: the New York teenager, for example, who questioned the constitutionality of the income tax in a letter published in the Buffalo Courier-Express. Suspecting criminal noncompliance, 15 agents tailed the boy for four days, discovering that he talked to his mailman, ate pizza and read pornographic magazines. True, he never filed a tax form...
...Cold War is over, and we won," proclaimed the Doonesbury comic strip. Countless op-ed columns and political speeches rely upon the same assumption: capitalism has triumphed, and Eastern Europe is about to become the next outpost of Reaganstyle laissez-faire...