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...worst thing that has happened to Hanley is something that he could not have foreseen-the opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
...second act Him shows Me a play on which he has been working, a string of nine devilish burlesques which the Theatre Company plays to the hilt with hilarious effect. Cummings' satire rapidly shatters several dramatic styles, bits of folklore, hundreds of hollow platitudes and idioms, and the comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least...
Occasionally, Burroughs' hollow humor draws a hollow belly laugh, as when one Nova Mobster, The Subliminal Kid, eggs on the civilized world toward a mind-shattering collapse by playing over and over (on loudspeakers that cannot be turned off) unrelated sound tapes of jack hammers, jukeboxes and cocktail-hour persiflage. But mostly the novel is a stream of unpunctuated non sequiturs, in which coherence seems inadvertent and in which Burroughs' scatological and pornographic effects no longer seem to shock...
...Aref's recent Nasser-style nationalization of imports and exports, as well as his growing dependence on Cairo and Moscow. In the northern mountains, the 1,500,000 Kurds once again are restive, suspecting that Aref's promise to provide Kurdish "national rights" is little more than hollow words...
...childhood were spoonfed the catechism answers as the be-all and end-all of religion and now occasionally, when the thought of religion occurs to us, wonder why we feel hollow and quite uncaring about the whole subject, are delighted with the era of the "good Pope John" and welcome with joy and enthusiasm his outspoken and good-humored disciple, Cardinal Gushing. The day of the tightly compartmented, oh so comfortably barricaded minds of the born-and-bred bead-sayers has passed. TERRY STORMS La Place...