Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is not to imply that the play is ever a bore; it is, instead guilefully charged with mesmeric fascinations. It begins with an abrasively effective encounter between two ex-schoolmates who loathe each other. One is a Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer...
...ranch. There, a battered pickup truck sits in the driveway, wash hangs on the line, and an income of a few thousand a year is all that one can expect. In the grim days of the Depression and the Dust Bowl, the face of Texas that Lyndon knew best bore a close resemblance to Emil Klein's pinched place, and so he cleared...
...greatest potential for growth. Daimler produces twelve basic trucks in more than 100 different styles, including a highly successful utility vehicle with a science-fiction name and capabilities: the Unimog. This ungainly, versatile product is one of Daimler's biggest sellers; it can be used to cut roses, bore shafts, or climb 70° slopes, is the transportation for the first motorized west-to-east expedition across the wide part of Africa, now underway. To sell its buses, which range from a ten-passenger miniature to a 180-passenger monster, Daimler has developed a "people-to-people" campaign aimed...
Last season King's bronzes bore the imprint of burlap, which left his witty compositions wearing a woven look. This time he leaves out the bronze, just drapes the burlap over aluminum tubing frames. The gawkish, gangling figures-some of them ceiling-tall-would be funny sacks indeed if they didn't look so sad. Through...
...becomes Robespierre. There are tableaux of the boy being caned by a Jesuit schoolmaster for his stiff-necked pride, of Robespierre as a humorless young parliamentary Stalin outraging the more moderate Mirabeau ("You've taught me a very sad thing, which is that the Revolution could be a bore"), of Robespierre dictating new decrees of death in a last mad spasm of guillotine-hungry power...