Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enobarbus displays the noble loyalty we associate with Horatio in Hamlet, the Bastard in King John, and the Earl of Kent in King Lear. His demise is the sole truly tragic aspect of this play; but one cannot call Antony a tragedy about Enobarbus as one can call Julius Caesar a tragedy about Brutus. Donald Davis' traversal of Enobarbus' famous Barge narration is not up to par, but his later scenes of repentance and death are powerful acting Rae Allen (Charmian), Will Geer (Agrippa), Claude Woolman (Menas), and Richard Waring (Sooth-sayer) are commendable in smaller parts; but Patrick Hires...
...Holed Bastard. When Premier Lumumba returned to Leopoldville from one of his hectic flights and got into a Sabena bus for the elevenmile ride into the city, paratroopers rocked the bus so violently that they raised it a foot off the ground. One of them shouted: "We ought to shoot this bastard full of holes!" Lumumba finally escaped under the escort of a U.S. embassy car. U.N. Representative Ralph Bunche, who had been confined to his hotel room by Force Publique mutineers, was manhandled by Belgian paratroops at the airport...
...captures most of the complexity. When he emits those horrible words, "Burn but his books!"--especially odious for those of us who recall Senator McCarthy--the b's burst like bombs (significantly, Caliban's language is liberally peppered with plosive labials). Yet Hyman shows us the pathos of this bastard brute too, and he underlines Caliban's dim gropings for aesthetic values in that great speech beginning. "The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not." Hyman's Caliban lacks only the digital "long nails" he himself speaks...
...that he wastes an amazingly small amount of film footage. Says Billy: "All that's left on the cutting-room floor when I'm through are cigarette butts, chewing-gum wrappers and tears. A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard...
...fair play and the law. In this new collection of nine short stories, as in his novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sillitoe's characters are spry, gamy, wry-humored, and view the British policeman not as a kindly bobby but as "a dirty, bullying, jumped-up bastard...