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His play, about the love lives of a '50s Jewish family and its black maid, riffs on race and death.
The most hilarious bits, critics say, are his riffs on masturbation and on growing up as a working-class Latino.
Some critics praise his insight into the dark nature of American business and his riffs on subjects from chemotherapy to free markets.
Ellison's first love was jazz--he played the trumpet--and many of the passages in Juneteenth are extended riffs in a kind of free-form verbal polyphony.
Overall, though, both shows are riffs on the same Mary Tyler Moore theme, which after 30 years has become the key slogan of TV feminism: They're going to make it after all.