Word: poking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing amateur archaeologist among the Aztec ruins, Brill tries to poke home the author's moral: Look at what becomes of people who worship gold, the "sun's excrement," instead of the sun. Alas, Bourjaily's real message is this: Nobody is likely to become extinct faster than American novelists trying to rework Lost Generation formulas in the age of Aquarius...
...songs are so somber. Many poke good-humored fun at life's petty annoyances-some universal, some strictly Soviet. In a young husband's complaint, Nozhkin sings in an easy, confidential tone of how he and his wife bought a summer dacha and an expensive German shepherd to guard it: "The dog doesn't sleep because it's guarding the dacha, and I don't sleep because I'm guarding the dog." "I work like a horse and get paid like a donkey," he adds. "All day long I run from the nursery...
...Years of Triumph is not a first crack in Frost's lovingly fashioned public image. Before the poet's death, Randall Jarrell, writing with brilliance and flawless taste about Frost's best work, also took time to lament his "complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy" and poke fun at his platform personality-"the Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity." The first volume of Thompson's biography dealt with the powerful rages and resentments displayed by Frost early in life. Such faults seemed less shocking in a turbulent childhood, and more justified during the 20 years...
...court-martial scene is, in fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...
...Phillips Books (7 Holyoke St.) has a good hardback selection, and a limited paperback selection upstairs. The Grolier Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) specializes in poetry, and is a lot of fun to poke around in. The Star Book Shop (29 Plympton St.) buys and sells old and rare books. It is, incidentally, located right in the back of the Lampoon Building, which is impressive for its ugliness...