Word: seltzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loeb's production are competently filled, the scenes from The Taming of the Shrew which the show's company is readying for New York, faring better, on the whole, than the ones from whenever the show took place before director Josh Rubins updated its topical references. Paul Seltzer and Andy Cadiff do well by the Shakespeare-quoting thugs who keep Deanne McKinstry from walking out of the show, and Carol Dines does a fine job with her big number, the one about how if a Harris pat means a Paris hat, she'll just be faithful in her fashion. Probably...
...Nothing and everything," Holmes assured him. "The white rim of Alka-Seltzer around your lips informs me of your gastric distress; the dark circles under your eyes broadcast sleeplessness; the shiny knees of your trousers bespeak prayer in the office...
SOME OF THE smaller characters illustrate the quality that Ricardo and Bangs lack. Paul Seltzer as the disbelieving doctor, Hope Brokman as a jilted secretary and Dorothy Meyer as a barroom pick-up all have flamboyantly intriguing people holding up their perfect faces. These personalities can support director Steven Glovsky's fetish for unneccessarily broad and stylized gestures, which hang ridiculously on most of the other characters...
This year could change the trend. I haven't even gone out for Alka-Seltzer for the Sunday morning aftermath. And from the way things have been going this year in the Ivy League, the time seems ripe for a new script...
Only in America could you fill The Golden Bowl with seltzer and sell it. Few writers have had the talent and self-awareness to exploit such a cultural aberration as well as Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting...