Word: broomsticks
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...because the little garage-theater they occupy in Inman Square is their own unreal world. They have their own Nixon--Ken Tigar--who can bring back our Nixon with only a malaprop, a putty jaw, and seven inflections on the word communist. They have Ted Drachman, a sloop-shouldered broomstick who can't sing and can't dance--and does both well. And finally the Proposition has Judy Kahan and Fred Grandy, two very talented people who can do anything...
...read the stories, a real-life Ragged Dick: a poor Mexican shoeshine boy who never knew his father, who learned to play golf by hitting "horse apples" with a sawed-off broomstick in a hayfield, who labored for $30 a week as a teaching pro until-hey, presto!-he won the U.S. Open and found fame and fortune. "Well," sighs Lee Buck Trevino, 28, "I used to tell sportswriters the truth, but they would just print what they wanted to, anyway. Now if they want to say something, I just let them...
...deep, our girl Anastasia. She is a being. All the others are characters, shadows of her illumination. I call her a witch, but she is not a promiscuous variation on Sinister Madonna (the Hunter girls?), classic marble zombie who ruled with an iron broomstick. No, Desire tells of human witches and the witchcraft of love. Strange fires burn here, and one could look a long time without understanding. Apparently Anastasia is destroying herself. Others come to pillage, sometimes to help, and lo! discover that they have been deceived. No warm sweets from the blaze. In this parable of bad love...
...milk truck, told to run, then shot dead when he did; a four-year-old girl killed when a tank commander sprayed her home's windows with machine-gun fire; and a man shot down for "carrying a gun," though witnesses swear it was only a broomstick...
Eerie Fanaticism. The earliest foot age, shot in 1900 by Professional Traveler Burton Holmes, contains a profusion of reminiscent vignettes: U.S. occupation troops play broomstick polo in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion; a throne-room sequence shows the last Manchu ruler, the depraved Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi. There are shots of Sun Yat-sen's founding of the Kuomintang, and of his 1925 funeral; and there is a portrait of 33-year-old Mao the next year, already glowing eerily with fanaticism. The impressive wedding ceremony of Sun's Wellesley-trained sister-in-law to his heir, Chiang...