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...After they found out how little money we had they were sort of pinned off," he said. "They knocked over the waste basket, glowered at us and then they left." Tifft estimated that the robbery took less then five minutes...
This theatrical decade of short cuts is perfectly epitomized by Dude, a bulging trash basket of a musical, and an open declaration of total aesthetic bankruptcy. It combines the worst of Hair with the worst of Jesus Christ Superstar-a void-plumbing feat. Dude unravels a numbingly incomprehensible allegory ranging from the dawn of creation to the limbo of suburbia, or some thing like that. Galt MacDermot's rock score is a wall of inchoate sound, and Tom O'Horgan stage-manages this debacle like a mass epileptic convulsion...
...They get accustomed to the place they have, Like cats I have a cat who likes to sleep in its own basket-if you change the basket it might possibly be unhappy. But a few days later it won't even remember the old basket...
...Zaid and Hashan had told them not to declare the cassette as a gift because they would then have to pay a heavy tax. When security men asked them if they were carrying packages from or for anyone, the girls replied no. The cassette player was in a wicker basket, which El Al attendants would not allow in the cabin. But airline employees placed it in a cardboard box and sent it to the cargo compartment. That simple precaution probably prevented considerable bloodshed...
From the beginning, as the film tells it, Marjoe was a child of corruption, born in a collection basket. When he was four, his evangelist parents took him to a Los Angeles rescue mission and had him ordained as a minister of the Old Time Faith Church. Then the family hit the hallelujah trail around the independent Pentecostal churches of the South and the Midwest. When Marjoe preached, according to the film, his parents cued him with prayerful exclamations ("Praise God!" meant the audience was ready for a collection); at home he was taught his routines under duress. To make...