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Steven and Joel Polinsky-brothers, actors of some experience, nice guys, and the performers of "Theater Two"-open with a comedy sketch about overcoming the inhibitions of playing kazoo, and then quickly proceed to do a "sound story" designed for audience participation: one brother tells about getting up in the morning and going to work while the other brother holds up a series of cue cards- "Radio," "Hot Water," "Happy" -and the audience is supposed to provide sound effects with specially provided kazoos. Steven and Joel (nice guys that they are) are very anxious to have the audience enjoy...
There is more to be said, but much more that needs to be done. Black history gives us some ideas about what to do, such as Archibald H. Grimke's Right on the Seaffold, Wrong on the Throne, a sketch of Denmark Vesey's life. Check out the exhibit, Black Students at Harvard 1847-1900, on display at Widener Library. You will find it literally revealing...
...segments: a film essay on Americans' fixation with auto demolition derbies; savage slashes by Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman at pharmaceutical hucksterism and the futility of "law-and-order"; a muckraking shocker by Author Paul Jacobs on the allegedly slipshod safety standards of the Atomic Energy Commission; and a sketch on romance, True Confessions-style...
...horror of a napalm explosion. Oh no, Flood instead rhapsodizes about the sleek shiny pointed bomb casing the napalm is dropped in. A book about the Vietnam war might be expected to include a little discussion of the National Liberation Front, or something about Vietnamese history, or maybe a sketch of hamlet life. No again-Flood prefers to discuss army routine, women, and particularly food: Saigon bouillabaisse is not as good as in Marseille, but the C-rations are much better than they were in World...
...Works of Vincent van Gogh by J.B. de la Faille. Illustrated. 701 paqes. Reynal. $55. Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description or comments on the work that he may have made. If all this sounds drab and scholarly, it is also cleansing and restorative...