Word: verbalizations
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...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest, pitting a fiery, sexy shrew, Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...
...great length about the state of their health, or last summer's trip to Europe. Their dauntlessness in the presence of the Mother Superior often springs from seniority. Even the necessity of facing them over rows of cold limp broccoli does not diminish the pleasure of verbal contact with these fine motherly women...
...Pussycat, by Bill Manhoff. A verbal slugfest between a man and a woman is the contemporary form of the mating dance. The man may not want to go to bed with the girl, as the hero of this play doesn't, but he realizes that it may be the only way to get her to shut up. Pussycat is as old as the Punch-and-Judy show and as new as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the evening is filled with good, healthy, vulgar, neurotic laughter...
...snatches of our conversation, misspelling every third word, but hanging in there as if without the typewriter he might just float off through the ceiling. I wondered what had held Allen Peter together for so many years and realized that, apart from sex, their communication must be not verbal, or visual like Allen's disrobing, but telepathic--in the spirit of the wordless interplay between members of a highly coordinated jazz combo...
...brings to mind only contradictory accolades: authoritative and relaxed, facile and profound. The paradigm for the style is TRB's elegantly folksy column, which invariably eschews logic and statistics to come right to the point. Even when the point is a tired one, the freshness of TRB's verbal stream brings new clarity to the matter by rinsing away all the moss and scum of confusion: "Maybe it's unfortunate, but about the only counterweight the little man has to Big Business is Big Government; the record of the century is that business has grown big first, with government limping...