Word: chalke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Troll King's lair. As half the floor of the Guthrie opens upward like the hold of a cargo ship, white fumes belch forth as from an anteroom to hell. The trolls are quite droll. They are dressed in inky black frock coats and robes, their heads are chalk-white and they sport Miss Piggy snouts. The Troll King (Frederick Neumann) immediately recognizes Peer as a closet troll and lays down the primal law of trolldom, which is the leitmotiv of the entire play. As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes...
Playful, easy-going and often grinning before his matches, Phills' apparent nonchalance towards wrestling would seem to bely the intensity needed to chalk up as impressive a record as he has at Harvard (six regular season losses in four years). Despite the ease with which he turns his less-conditioned, though larger opponents, wrestling at Harvard hasn't been without pitfalls for Phills...
WATCHING STANLEY JAFFE'S Without A Trace is like watching a professor scrape a piece of chalk on the blackboard: you want to see what he's going to say, but the method gives you an uncontrollable urge to turn away and leave. In Without a Trace, Jaffe's style of filming and connecting the plot often deters from his poignant and broadly applicable theme...
...unique gift for surreal parody. In a sultan's harem, the chief eunuch gives a sex lecture in the tone of a call-in therapist: "You could fault tonight, you could die. In any event, I trust a review can do no harm, and I enjoy our chalk talks." A crusading George speaks with Joycean extravagance: " 'We were friends,' he says again of the man he has just mutilated. . .'He was wily. I frisked his shift and groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came to me he must have swallowed...
...sort of man who is appalled by the fact that Goethe refused to send Beethoven money when the composer was in desperate need. Haider's best friend, Maurice (Gary Waldhorn), is a Jewish psychoanalyst. Yet in the course of this drama, Haider erases his conscience like chalk on a lecture-room blackboard. At Good's end, this decent, liberal-minded scholar has become Eichmann's right-hand man at Auschwitz...