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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? leaves welts on a playgoer's mind with its savage wit and marital horrors. In this brilliantly virulent struggle of man and wife, Arthur Hill plays cobra to Uta Hagen's mongoose...
...defeat. Martha dreamed of power; defeated, she is loud, coarse, a monster of appetite, mostly promiscuous. George pursued the truth but has disenchantedly come to regard it as a mirage. In his dream's defeat, he is a monster of intelligence, detached, acid, playful as a cobra, alternating easily from the deadly serious to the deadly comic...
Universal Guilt. The hero of Zeko is a forlorn little shadow of a man who returns to Belgrade after fighting in World War I. Rootless and despairing, he is browbeaten by a tigress of a wife called the Cobra, and bullied by her son, who may or may not be his. But when World War II breaks out, Zeko snaps out of his malaise. He sees a group of peasants hanged from lampposts by the Nazis, and in sudden outrage, he resolves to join the underground. Simultaneously, he finds the courage to revolt against the tyranny of his wife...
From a near-stage balcony box, Jackie seemed to enjoy scenes stolen from her own life: Nanette Fabray portraying a globetrotting First Lady now riding an elephant, now watching a cobra fight a mongoose. Back in the theater's nooks and crannies, men guarding the presidential box laughed aloud at lyrics to The Secret Service Makes Me Nervous. President Kennedy did not arrive until the start of the second act; Jackie tried to fill him in, but he still spent much of his time studying his program, later gamely asserted that the musical was "very good." To avoid hurt...
Gunther considers Inside Asia the best of his Insides; Inside U. S. A. presented the most problems. "The United States," Gunther writes, "lay like a cobra before me, seductive, terrifying and immense." Gunther managed to examine every city with a population greater than 200,000, but some were more receptive than others. Though he was invited in Texas to address a joint session of the legislature, in Tennessee Senator Kenneth McKellar threw him out of his office. Gunther found Americans more eager to be interviewed than other peoples, but he also found them more politically naive. Inside...