Word: ade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet high, and though you can get on the Staten Island Ferry and feel it shiver under your feet, it can only carry half a dozen riders at a time. The Woolworth Building leans crazily, canted forward like a gothic shed in the wind. Its terra cotta façade has become a wedding cake of writhing mullions and bulging cornices; the windows glow green, and inside in plain view there are people yelling at file clerks, chasing secretaries and munching what are probably pastrami sandwiches. On the roof, like a lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon...
...There is a gritty and lugubrious side to the Ruckus imagination. Some of the figures are gross ham-faced brutes; and the bum who presides over the entrance to Wall Street is a scarecrow fit to terrify children, a wadded mass of sacking perched on a cockeyed façade with nails bursting out of his chin for stubble...
...place. When one walks along the sinister, switchback gully of Ruckus' Wall Street, past the dark banks ("Manufacturers Handover") and the pullulating Stock Exchange with its Big Board and some 500 gesticulating brokers, one senses that every crocket and finial on the wildly leaning façade of Trinity Church is right...
...Giscard d'Estaing, West German President Walter Scheel, U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Britain's Prince Philip, Spain's new King had just decorously assumed power during an official anointing ceremony at the Church of San Jerónimo in Madrid. The façade of an orderly transfer of power from Francisco Franco to his designated heir was persuasively preserved, but a hundred questions were left hanging over the elaborate ritual of pomp and prayer...
...dirty but wistful. The cast acts as if high on speed. Two are supreme. Donald Sinden turns Arthur into an irresistible hypocrite whose mind is so firmly fixed on sex that everything else is tiresome distraction, while Rachel Roberts' surrender of Muriel's well-bred façade to exigent desire fills the stage with the cheery sensuality of oldtime British music hall...