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...imply." At least not in Fry's plays. Fanciful and stylized, they are written in a verse that it hardly seems fair to call blank. Everything is cloaked in a brocade of metaphors. Was that a rooster's crow? No, it was "the pickaxe voice of a cock, beginning to break up the night." Did it rain? No, "the heavens emptied their pots." Fry uses such figures of speech-more figures than speech-in an attempt to jolt his audience into a fresh recognition of commonplace truths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gilt Without the Lily | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...sure as you are a jiveass nigger, some well-meaning intellectuals will be picking through your soul... will be picking through your dirty drawers, and undoubtedly some frail lady will turn your dead cock over with the tip of her Scripto looking for "meaning." But they will not find it here, not the same meaning they find in fine "homes" in the Berkeley hills, Wall Street, PepsiCola, Perry Como, Toilets, Nixon, crew cuts, and Cadillacs. You will have them understand what you mean by jive...

Author: By Lynn M. Darling, | Title: Books Mr. Jiveass Nigger | 4/18/1970 | See Source »

...Crowley. "Maybe he is a homosexual, maybe he isn't. I think everybody has drunk at that fountain at one time or another. Or at least thought about it. Maybe Alan came to the party because he wanted to-maybe not. If he had gotten down and sucked a cock at the end of the movie, you would just have yawns... You can't top mystery, can you?" Crowley nearly doubled over with laughter, and put his last drink down on the coffee table...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Mart Crowley and 'The Boys' | 3/25/1970 | See Source »

...atmosphere on the bus was different, too. The Crimson was relaxed, confident, and after a cock?? reception at New Haven, also jovial. But the best part of the entire trip back to Cambridge was watching Joe Cavangh and coach Coo?? Weiland chat in the front...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 3/21/1970 | See Source »

...senile so the spirit of Leon Uris is shining through. But all manner of neat details begin to make themselves felt. The movie gets to the defector's new house in Alexandria and suddenly all the CIA men are obnoxious boors, the Russian has thrice their intelligence and cock has departed from the heavy-handed moralism of the script to work ironically against...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Topaz at the Harvard Square through tomorrow | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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