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...tales are told: the Miller's, the Steward's, the Merchant's and the Wife of Bath's. The dialogue is all in rhyming couplets, which is rather like spending the evening on a date with a metronome. The stories mainly feature an aging cuckold, a harridan somewhat uglier than sin, and a blonde mini-bombshell named Sandy Duncan, whom nature has cunningly fashioned for everything except acting. In the key roles of the Steward and the Wife of Bath, George Rose and Hermione Baddeley are formidable contenders for a much-needed Hammy Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Pilgrims' Regress | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Menacing Blades. At other times, Cohen sees women as dangerous creatures capable of destroying his freedom and dignity. He can be wry about it, although in The Cuckold's Song his double-edged view of love leads to an exercise in self-mockery that could be described as black romanticism. Addressing the women who have injured his pride, he concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Romanticism | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...going to work on his insides; when the trombones blast, you know that Ford is feeling the full gamut of green-eyed emotions, even without hearing him rant about "Gelosia"; and if you are a little pedantic, when you hear the French horns bay, you will think of the cuckold's horns which the anti-Falstaffians are about to plant on Falstaff's head...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Falstaff | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...Ineluctable modality of the visible" interior monologue. When he shuts his eyes our screen goes black until he opens them. Equally well integrated into the film's conventions are certain conspicuous parts of the sound track, as when Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) hears a cuckoo clock chanting "Cuckold! Cuckold! Cuckold!" or some barnyard noises Bloom hears in a tavern, when a greasy slab of meat falls from the gob of a man sitting near...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, AT THE MUSIC HALL THROUGH THURSDAY | Title: Ulysses | 5/2/1967 | See Source »

Girls abound, and Howard becomes involved with Felicia, the secretary of a fellow executive. His subsequent neglect of his own secretary drives the poor girl to drink and dismissal. Even worse is the confrontation with the deceived colleague, the office cuckold. He knows all, the poor fellow announces, and he feels he must switch jobs, joining an outfit in Kansas City. "I can't stay here," he says tragically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Candide Keaton | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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