Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BLAMI MUST LIE with director Don Bacon. His deterion a questionable practice in most cases and disastrous in this one, cuts the core out of Brecht's thesis. His decision is doubly unfortunate since all along the performance promises so much. With the Brecht he has used, Bacon has built a solid well paced show. The acting is more than competent and the blocking works unobtrusively and well. The elaborately eccentric set makes funny noises and spouts smoke on cue what more could you want. As well as reflecting the characters the costumes are comic statements in themselves. The show...
...does a Boston Brahmin take so well to being a ham?" a reporter inquired of Robert Grovesner Gardner. "Simple," he replied. "Some go ham. We go proscuito." As he skated off he was heard to mutter. "Ten pig wedding, five pig funeral, with five pounds of bacon cleared." Then this little proscuito went wee, wee, wee all the way home...
Obviously on the run, a black youth named Randall bursts into the shop as Glas, its aged, stony, tight-lipped owner is absorbed in taking inventory. Randall, who boasts an I.Q. of 185, and who, in his brash bellicosity mingles canned ghetto jargon with quotes from Kafka and Francis Bacon, begins to verbally assault Glas's defensive taciturnity...
Jackson has spent the last decade travelling to the 14 prisons under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Corrections. Armed with his tape recorder and camera, Jackson grasped what life is like for prisoners like Chinaman, Ten-Four. Bacon and Porkchop, Lightnin' and Cowboy. They told him their story and sang him their songs and he was able to gain an unusual insight into the mechanisms of survival contained in the rhythmic melodies...
Until his China trip. Richard Nixon was generally treated by the columnists--confident that they were smarter and tougher than the President--as a malevolent and silly child. Now, somehow, he's a political genius. George McGovern has become the class served up some bacon, and set to work each morning with a knife and fork. Why this cruelty? Because McGovern had shown weakness: he had shown himself to be politically salve...