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Larry and Eli. Not a comic duo, but a pair of combatants meeting in today's 6 p.m. ECAC semifinal at Boston Garden...
...ECAC's first tournament champion in 1962, and advanced to the final two years later. The Larries have not reached the finals since (although they have made the playoffs five of the last six years), but have always been a league terror--despite the comic nickname...
...Dream Play stands "Indra's Daughter," a sexy spiritual being sent to earth by her father, the God of the Universe, in order to experience the woes and sufferings of mankind. Valerie Steiker, who has the drop-dead looks of a Hindu goddess, plays her with the allure and comic Southern wit of a displaced Scarlett O'Hara...
...admirers of Kingsley Amis, 64, were cheered last October to learn that The Old Devils, his 18th novel, had won the Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award. "About time" seemed a fitting response to the news, especially from those readers who had discovered the writer's incendiary comic skills as far back as his first novel, Lucky Jim (1954). On the other hand, the thought of Amis' being toasted across Britain was enough to provoke an unsettling question among Stateside fans: Could it be possible that the aging bad boy wrote a book that did not insult...
...variously unsatisfactory husbands. And if Amis continues to put liberal ideas through scorching ridicule, he also allows one of his men an expression of sympathy for Britain's unemployed, albeit loutish, youth. Even so, these concessions never denature Amis' characteristic bite; instead they suggest a new pathos behind the comic facade...