Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These comments that The Gondoliers seems static and low key are not intended to be harsh. I had to attend the Sunday matinee performance at which half the audience was either over seventy or under ten. They are not particularly responsive age groups: one not prone to belly laughs, the...
Any artist who feels mashed by critics can take comfort in what used to be written about Gustave Courbet. Consider the broadside he got from Alexandre Dumas fils in 1871: "Under what gardener's bell, with the help of what manure, as a result of what mixture of wine...
My first impression of my host is auditory. "What the hell are you doing here?" asks a disembodied voice somewhere over my head. This is something of a stumper, and having no response ready, I introduce myself to the stairway. For a moment the steps sit undisturbed but soon a...
This habit of skipping past the physical toward the philosophical makes The City Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader...
There's a belly dancer, a