Word: beggar
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...People are going to come here when they can't get into brunches," Edward G. Symkus, manager of Beggar's Banquet Records, said yesterday, adding, "We're going to be the place to wait...
...Aunt Julia and I watch in openmouthed amazement, by changing props and costumes Pedro Camacho transformed himself [into] an old lady, a beggar, a bigot, a cardinal... During this series of lightning-quick changes he kept talking, in a fervent tone of voice. 'And why shouldn't I have the right to become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster...
...reputations carved out for them as early as 1963. Eventually, the dope, smack, uppers and downers, the busts and jail sentences, piled up to form a wall even the Stones could not scale. They stayed home from 1967-69, recording ever more varied and inventive albums--Between the Buttons, Beggar's Banquet. Let it Bleed, but remained largely invisible to the outside world...
...given a bottle of wine, and after everyone has settled down the waiter starts humming and singing. This focus centers more and more on the one remaining empty table, which turns out to be the set. Thus begins the first of the three farces, Alphonse' Allais's "The Poor Beggar and the Fairy Godmother." Christopher Randolph, as the waiter, enchants the audience with his nonchalant egoism and warbles his strong voice as he sings both on and off the stage. This first farce consists of the waiter serving a poor beggar (portrayed in an appropriately pathetic manner by Sam Samuels...
...then a leg appears. The leg, it turns out, is undoubtedly attached to the beggar's very own fantastically attired fairy godmother. Standing with one foot in the air, the four-armed fairy god-mother (Nela Wagman), bells, frizzy hair, Safron dress and all, keeps the audience in hysterics by sustaining her bizarre accent and ridiculous movements during her entire time on stage. The fairy godmother grants the beggar's wish, disappears, and reappears a few minutes later. This time she comes all the way down the ladder, on to the stage and assumes a yoga position on the table...