Word: butts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the comedy, most of the humor is at the expense of the Jew, Shylock, whom the poet conceived as a grasping, vengeful figure intent on exacting his pound of flesh from the Merchant. But director Richard Smithies has wisely chosen not to make Shylock the butt of all the jokes, even though he succeeds only partially in finding funny material elsewhere in the play...
...angry mood at Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has him murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank...
...terrified obedience. He is an unsoldierly-looking fellow with a built-in knack for getting into trouble (when he is detailed to beat carpets for the sergeant major's wife, she offers herself to him on a carpet just as her husband comes along). Inevitably, he is a butt for all the sadistic tricks that a bullying noncom can devise. He is brought to the brink of suicide...
...Kenneth Widmerpool, who first appeared in the series as a clodhopping schoolboy, the butt of Jenkins' witty friends. But now those friends are ruined, bitter, broke or drunk. But Widmerpool, the earnest bore, alone seems to be making a go of it in a suddenly makeshift world. He works in a financial house that specializes in discounting bills. Widmerpool's job as a bill-broker becomes a symbol of Author Powell's thesis...
While they marveled at his growth as a ballplayer, his teammates corrupted his nickname to "Honus" and made him the butt of their jokes. Without half trying, Honus added to his reputation as a clown...