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...most aggressively competitive eras of American journalism - had promoted the race among Admiral Richard Byrd, the polar explorer, and others. In April, Noel Davis and Stanton Wooster were killed during a trial flight. Two other flyers disappeared. Lindbergh was the Midwestern dark horse, caricatured as a Minnesota rube, self-sufficient, spunky as a cowlick. The possibility of another death gave the public a shot of adrenaline: Death...
...Gentlemen of Verona has seldom figured prominently or popularly in the Shakespearean repertory. With the exception of the rube Launce, its characters aren't particularly distinctive, and a false resolution awkwardly forestalls a more probable and good-humored one. But the play's unevenness worked in favor of this musical adaptation. The writers deleted and redistributed Shakespeare's lines, sharing the eloquence more equably and getting things done with less dalliance. Guare heightened the farce and added intrigue to personalities by setting each character to a modern musical rhythm with lyrics to match, in idioms such as Motown, salsa...
Caesar and Cleopatra is afflicted by the mummy's curse. Despite two or three of the best scenes in the Shavian canon, the play itself may be unworkable: lines by Shaw but construction by Rube Goldberg. Offstage there are battles, mob scenes and the endless clumping of Roman legions. Onstage there are only words; even in this finger exercise for Pygmalion Shaw seemed to be heading toward what he later called playwriting as a "platonic exercise...
Meanwhile, the Freshman Council set January 13 as the day it will begin a selection process that resembles a Rube Goldberg creation...
...pixilations, in cartoon, watercolor and clanking 3-D reality, range from the celebrated Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway to the demented thingamabobs that made the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a minuscule classic. It is no wonder that he has been dubbed by admiring Americans the British Rube Goldberg. But that, with all due deference to the late Rube (who was a great admirer of Emett), is to compare Edward Lear with Ogden Nash, or Mozart with Meyerbeer. Sosays TIME Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who has followed Emett's career for three decades, and wrote this affectionate...