Word: beds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SHYLOCK remains unreconciled. How satisfied can we be about any "happy" ending that makes its sine qua non his humiliation? Director George Hamlin has taken a wise hint from Walter Kaiser and ended the play, not with the happy sight of lusty couples marching off to bed, but on a note of melancholy. Silhouetted against a night sky, Antonio wordlessly stares into a fountain, suggesting that the solutions on the play's surface are far from final...
...wine in stock, but basics are in short supply. Breadlines form at 4 a.m. at the few bakeries still open, and the city is out of soft drinks and beer by noon every day. Most of the stores are padlocked and shuttered. Foreign newsmen have been rousted out of bed at 4 a.m. for identity checks, and several were detained temporarily. Some 70 other foreign civilians have reportedly also been arrested...
...tells how she was raped by an uncle when she was only 15. This assault precipitated a descent into prostitution and an unfortunate marriage in which her soldier husband insisted on having a child against his wife's express wishes. "He tied me down to the bed and everything," she reveals. All of this occurred before Claudine's ascent to stardom in a series of quickies produced by France's newly burgeoning porno industry...
...sake, that has nothing to do with what your view or my view of life is," Dr. Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine and director of medicine at the Harvard teaching hospital, says. "We're not talking about someone lying comfortably in bed and some brute comes along and ends their life...
...Diderot of the dirty joke that Legman will be best remembered, although Rationale contains enough ravings against the inauthenticities of popular culture to earn him another title -the Carrie Nation of kitsch. He is also the Joe McCarthy of heterosexuality who looks for gays under every bed, a man who professes to love woman but whose opinions reveal a lover of the Vic torian idea of Woman, and a Jeremiah who sees the world ending in nuclear war or a fecal flood of pollution...