Word: cockfights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have invented the diary form, Mallon observes, "he more or less perfected it." Crack open his daybooks anywhere and a surprisingly modern figure emerges, with his ambition, flaws and lust intact. ) He plays up to the powerful, pans a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu and did poner mi mano...
...Skating Arena in Wyoming--Cimino's camera moves with a lovely, fluid grace, catching you up in the excitement of the event. Cimino captures well the spirit of social gatherings, contrasting the stodgy coldness of an infamous Stock Growers Association meeting with the raucous and ugly cheer of a cockfight tournament...
With less care this discord-first interpretation could turn the Dream into a rowdy cockfight, with lovers, parents, fairies and rustics tussling through scene after scene. But Epstein draws nearly all of his conflict from the text--except for an amusing pre-marital spat between Theseus and Hippolyta that makes some dramatic sense but seems only marginally present in Shakespeare's original. Everywhere else, the conflicts in this production neatly fit into a world thrown out of kilter by the feud between Oberon and Titania, the presiding deities. The explosive initial entrance of the lovers and Egeus, grunting and panting...
...Ronald Reagan discovered last week. Within a day after telling what his wife Nancy called "the ethnic joke to end all ethnic jokes," Reagan found himself forced to apologize to anyone who might have taken offense. Reagan's joke: "How do you tell the Polish one at a cockfight?" "He's the one with the duck." "How do you tell the Italian?" "He bet on the duck." "How do you know the Mafia is there?" "The duck wins...
Bush hit 17 towns and villages, a seven-piece band in tow. He moved easily from cockfight to cocktail party, toured factories and housing projects. When Baker visited a few days later, he kept an equally hectic schedule, visiting shopping centers, dedicating a clinic...