Word: daggerisms
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...this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint, and a local society editor (Zoe Caldwell), who seems to have escaped from a flour barrel. Miss Caldwell is an auspicious new acting presence on Broadway. But the play is a rubber-dagger stab at theater of the absurd that lacks lonesco's lunacy or Pinter's menace. It seems to have come less from Williams' pen than from his penwiper...
...Flint, the latest and most prodigal of hoke-and-dagger thrillers, is a takeoff on the spoofs that imitate James Bond movies, which already show the strain of excess spoofery. This leaves Flint Director Daniel Mann with little more to do than try the hypothesis that more and more will be funnier and funnier. Instead, the gimmickry congeals...
...Leader Ted Heath. Busy shielding his shins from Tory toes, he has been unable to mount a forceful attack on the Opposition's real opposition, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's ruling Laborites. But last week Heath finally kicked back. When his shadow minister for colonial affairs, dapper, dagger-tongued Angus Maude, wrote in the Spectator that "the Opposition has become a meaningless irrelevance," Heath called him on the carpet of his West End bachelor flat. When Maude emerged 30 minutes later, he announced his resignation from Heath's frontbench...
BLUE LIGHT (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Robert Goulet has turned in his operetta cloak for a dagger, stars in this new series about an American who renounces his citizenship to become a Nazi spy. In reality, however, Goulet is a double agent hated and hunted by the very country for which he is risking all, etc., etc. Premi...
...endless title too literally explains, it is a play within a play-a dramatization of the dagger slaying of the French revolutionary leader who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. (Actually, the enlightened keeper of the Charenton asylum did believe in the therapeutic value of having inmates act out plays, and Sade, who was incarcerated there for a time, contributed some scripts...