Word: casinario
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...whole show suffers from this undertone of aimlessness. Suddenly a large globe begins to jerk around on its axis to the tune of some languorous melody, and the audience is borne away to Casinario, a tiny country clinging to the coast of some as yet undiscovered continent. The state is named after its central institution, the Casino. When the roulette wheel stops spinning and depression stalks the land, an S. O. S. is sent to the Last Billionaire, a native son named M. Banco...
From then the show grinds on in dreary monotone. The patient audience is wafted back and forth, back and forth between the fairyland of Casinario and the prosaic world of fact. Of course, M. Banco effects a coup d'etat in the land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration...
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