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Perhaps the most surprisingly wonderful of The Proposition's skits are its improvisations, which are eminently spontaneous, since they are based on situations suggested by the audience. The house special is an improvisation in which the actors switch acting methods in mid-scene on cue from Forster. Sunday night's special showed a husband and wife on a golf course, and even managed to work in another audience suggestion about a dilettante gravedigger...
...frame through which El Cordobés' life is seen is his Big Fight - the 1964 Madrid corrida in which he was elevated to the status of matador de toros and in which he survived a near-fatal goring. Every tense moment in this corrida is the cue for a flashback: the future El Cordobés growing up in an earth-floored hovel where he sometimes has only grass to eat; serving a grueling apprenticeship at village fiestas where the only available medical care is a slosh of alcohol in an open wound; rising under the tutelage...
McCarthy's entrance to Fenway Park was a magnificent spectacle. Precisely at 9:30 when Leonard Bernstein gave the cue a garage door opened in the "big green monster," as the center field wall is known. McCarthy's motorcade drove out of the wall across to left field where the grey-haired candidate emerged from his limousine surrounded by police...
...Responding to her cue line) Please say no more. (Go see Help again if you don't follow...
This final twist-Lynd ends his slim outline at the Civil War-brings American radicals surprisingly close to what he regards as the final spiral in their evolution, "a frontal assault on the authority of the state." Enter the radicals of the 1960s right on cue, taking literally the nearly 200-year-old advice of the influential English political philosopher William Godwin, who declared that established authority has no more right to regulate an individual's actions than to regulate his thoughts...