Word: anthropophagy
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...contemporary artist must orchestrate an "event" out of the materials immediately at hand. In that light, Allott may be seen to have orchestrated the specific mood that precipitated the rape, thus fashioning his own particular happening. On another level, Allott has expressed such acid contempt of his brush-wielding anthropophagi that the rape could conceivably symbolize the crude assault that some sad creature might make on a subject that he is totally incapable of mastering, either through study or craft...
...this Prologue a wonderfully funny scene in itself, but it is also necessary to the form and the full meaning of the play. Furthermore, it is needed to build up in the minds of the audience a picture of Caesar and his legions as nothing better than the awful Anthropophagi that Othello mentions. Otherwise the ironic effect of Caesar's first entrance is nullified; and the audience, let in on a secret, cannot properly appreciate Cleopatra's experience of going through a similar anxiety and discovery in the ensuing scenes...
...Fine Young Cannibals (Avon; M-S-M) proves once again that while inspiration may falter, color cameras never get tired. The anthropophagi of the title are four unpleasant young folks from Texas (Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, George Hamilton and Susan Kohner). Poor Boy Wagner loves Poor Girl Wood -carelessly, as it turns out. Spurning his offer of honorable wedlock, she boards an eastbound train, meets suave Yaleman Hamilton and, smelling riches, lets herself be plied with strong drink from his portable pigskin bar. He has her way with her, so to speak. Later, learning that Natalie is pregnant...
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