Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down and out, the ironic humanity and atonal music of destitution. He loathed the stingy, petty-bourgeois tailoring trade of his parents, but in mimicking their gab and strut, he made them sympathetic and worthwhile in spite of himself and of them because he saw where they were authentic beneath their fraudulence. He found the poetry in a whore; for all the disgust, indifference and thoughtless obeisance to some purely sexual nerve communicated by the images, there is something totally absorbing in his spasmodic narrative. You just can't tell what it means to see corruption and what it means...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS was a vehicle for Carol Burnett, who used the leading role of Princess Winifred the Woebegone as a stepping stone to television immortality. The show is based on the fairy tale of the princess whose royal lineage is proven when a pea lying beneath 20 mattresses disturbs her sleep. The show's one-dimensional fairy tale plot exaggerates the frothy, cute tendencies inherent in most American musical comedies. With minimal character development and a score which also lacks distinction, the play depends on a showcase of individual talents rather than the merits of a coherent story...
...euphoria of Election Day still vibrates along the sagging boardwalk and ravaged back streets of Atlantic City. Since New Jersey's voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal to legalize casino gambling in that neglected aunt of Eastern resorts, money has poured into the city as if gold had been found beneath its soiled beaches. Downtown real estate values have soared 200% or more as speculators and promoters of every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected to wind...
...children in China, came to America at age 45 and produced six more offspring. Although her husband's laundries fail on both coasts of the U.S., her growing family maintains a beleaguered survival. To Brave Orchid, all non-Chinese are "ghosts," alien, powerful presences who are otherwise beneath consideration. Her new life consists of uneasy dealings with "Meter Reader Ghosts, Tree Trimming Ghosts, Five-and-Dime Ghosts." She is even suspicious of her children, her daughter notes, "because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts and were ourselves half ghosts." So she "talks-story" incessantly, trying...
...original at all," countered Campbell, smiling from beneath his beard...