Word: bicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Private Bickering. If Bourguiba's memo was a devastating blast at Nasser, he was not the only critic. At the opening meeting of the Arab League, the conference host himself, Morocco's King Hassan II, repeated Bourguiba's themes but in milder terms. As conference chairman, Nasser weathered the storm with considerable aplomb, pointing out that the conferees would get nowhere if they limited themselves to diatribes. Then he cleared the hall of all but the twelve heads of state so that the Arab leaders could bicker on in privacy...
...Artist, I am a Man, I am a Failure," Him tells Me, and throughout the play he expands on this theme, trying to explain himself to her. In the first and third acts, as the dialogue resonates between curt exchanges and wandering metaphorical soliloquies, the two bicker, muse, pet, and search vainly for common understandings. Their scenes together are separated by snatches of brash caricature in which "three weird sisters" babble deliriously: "Anything, Everything, Nothing, and Something were looking for eels in a tree, when along came Sleep pushing a wheelbarrow full of green mice...
Conveniently flung together by hard luck, the four men head through Apache country to find a Southern trader who may know the whereabouts of 2,000 carbines stolen from a U.S. Cavalry shipment. En route they brawl and bicker, drink and debauch in a rugged Old West that appears to be crawling with bandidos, prostitutes and sadistic savages. They add an Indian girl to their retinue, a sensible primitive who talks little and doesn't keep any of the fellows awake nights...
...stay in." The Beautiful Cities. The urban renewal operation, always painful and not always a success, requires a solid consensus of civic opinion and energy. In Buffalo, for instance, a $15 million renewal program has been stalled in its tracks for a year and a half while politicians bicker over which developers should get the job. But most renewal is still slum clearance, and slum clearance has critics aplenty. The far political right naturally attacks it as a new kind of Communist takeover. The left attacks it as displacement of the poor...
Feeding out the play's entangling plot lines are Sidney Brustein (Gabriel Dell), a disabused idealist who still quivers at the drop of a line from Thoreau, and his wife Iris (Rita Moreno), a would-be Duse who is ready, to stoop to TV commercials. They would rather bicker and brood than curse and make up. In the intervals between their somewhat tiresome spats, the best scenes and acting of the play occur. Top honors go to Alice Ghostley as Iris' proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells...