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...imagination. The playgoer must be prepared for sporadic visits by the devil's cohorts, Sebena, Serena, and Salambo. The first two are scantily-clothed nymphs, who do lusty dances in the priest's parlor under fittingly blue lights. The latter, Salambo, is a messenger dressed something like the Batman. If this trio is expendable, one could also make a case for the deletion of all God's little codgers, including two stuffed donkey's a bird, and someone dressed up as a lion...
...opera, as in the original story, Wozzeck is a captain's batman who offers himself to the sardonic and sadistic regimental doctor as a physiological demonstration piece for the doctor's lectures. Wozzeck's purpose is to earn enough money to support his girl, Marie, and their child. But, tormented and ridiculed, Guinea Pig Wozzeck begins to have hallucinations. When his girl is seduced by a strutting drum major, Wozzeck mutters confusedly about "sin"; he stabs Marie, throws the knife into a pond. Then, in fear of discovery, he wades into the pond to recover the shining...
...began, Clement Attlee volunteered, fought in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and France with the South Lancashire Regiment and Tank Corps, returned home four years later with a major's crowns, a D.S.O. and the scars of two severe wounds. He went back to Limehouse, and Charles Griffiths, his old army batman, went with him. Despite incessant attacks of dysentery, which Attlee had picked up during the war, he worked all day and many a night as well, speaking at meetings, getting the lads of Limehouse out of trouble and lending his kind, mild counsel to anyone who needed it. "A woman...
...modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery driver who had been the earl's batman during the war, got a rousing cheer when he left for the festivities...
...best to make all comic books (with a monthly sale of 50 million) more acceptable to youth leaders, educators, psychiatrists and parents. Before the year is out, U.S. kids will get wholesome advice about racial tolerance, participation in community affairs and health education from such comicbook favorites as the Batman, the Green Arrow, Superboy and Superman...