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008			780202s1978 nyu 000 0 eng
020			_a0-8021-5011-X
035			_a(AEA)FA7E50BBED5B4A948C842A33555575FB
050			_aPS 3563.A4345 _b.M31 1978
100			_aMamet, David. _932066
245		0	_aSexual perversity in Chicago and The duck variations : _btwo plays / _cby David Mamet.
260			_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c1978
300			_a125 p. _c21 cm.
520			_a Mamet is the first playwright to create a formal and moral shape out of the undeleted expletives of our foul-mouthed time." The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations "a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless."
520			_aSexual Perversity in Chicago is about two young men, Bernie and Danny, and two young women, Deborah and Joan, trying to sort out their sex lives amid filing cabinets and the nervous regimentation of the singles bar scene. In a series of blackout scenes, we see them fallilng in and out of love in a comedy of failure to learn. Two of them have an affair which their two friends coach from the sidelines--cynical and destructive--helping to break up the relationship. "Seual Perversity in Chiocago is like a sleazy soata of seduction involving two couples
650			_aPlays, English. _994127
942			_cALR
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