Word: cardboarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police blamed the trouble on "Skollies," or roughnecks. But few could doubt that underlying the rage in Cape Town was the cruel dilemma of the "in-betweeners," the plight of the coloreds, who are also imprisoned by apartheid. In their segregated ghetto, where whitewashed bungalows sit beside cardboard shacks, political avenues are closed to them; few have any sense of direction. Says Poet Adam Small, who lives near Elsies River: "People here are in limbo; they just don't care any more. Their children are bitter and ready for violence. Like the sand of the Cape flats, apartheid lies...
...designed a kitchen, this would be it. Everything is dingy, dirty, tattletale gray. The refrigerator, the table, the washer-name it-it is dusty and either sags or tilts. At stage left is the adjoining bedroom, crammed with cardboard boxes...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...
...Duchess of Malfi from a gossip-ridden palace and situating it in the dark recesses of the mind, Shiels and Raymond have made the tragedy more ghastly, the villains more sinister, but both less convincing. The directors have reduced Webster's tragedy to melodrama--enjoyable, fast-paced but cardboard. A tragedy should make us suffer vicariously, if only for an instant. We don't suffer for an instant at Quincy House's Duchess of Malfi: it's difficult to sympathize with someone else's nightmare...
...commonplace, his obsession with originality, keep him not only from writing but even from talking or living without wondering whether it's all been seen on some stage before. His friends have to be Holvard Solness and Miss Julies and when they can't, when he sees them as "cardboard characters" and "cartoons," and their "soap talk" as unsuitable dialogue, he abandons them, forgetting that the stuff of everyday life must be, by definition, commonplace. Terry wants to live as the artist of the new and the hero of the new, and when he can'the hardly wants to live...