Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Artaud's vision encompassed a theater that could sweep through an audience like a plague, be as direct as a bullet, release the torments and ecstasies that may be found in death, martyrdom and love. He felt that the theater was strangling in words and could be reborn only through signs, sounds and the primitive force of myth. Above all, he wanted a burning intensity to be felt in the theater that would sear an audience: "The spectator who comes to us knows that he has agreed to undergo a true operation, where not only his mind...
...Spanish playwright Calderon. It is acted out in an area rather like a bull pit with the audience looking down over the walled-in enclosure on all four sides. Four men and a woman representing the madness, arrogance and corruption of the world humiliate, torture and finally cause the death of the Prince, a pure and passive soul clad in a white loin cloth...
Sometimes the leisurely ambiance lulls a guest into an unexpected revelation. Raquel Welch insisted that the brain is "a very erogenous zone." Young Actress Anjelica Huston conceded that her father, John Huston, should never have cast her in A Walk with Love and Death. She found herself "no good, awful. There's so many young girls waiting for the opportunity, dying ... I shouldn't have been that selfish." On an earlier show, during a discussion on world overpopulation, Arthur Godfrey leaned over, asked David, "Wanna know a secret?," and then told a nationwide audience that he had himself...
...survived for 594 days; of as yet undetermined causes; in Paris. On May 12, 1968, Boulogne received the heart of a 39-year-old Paris customs officer, and within a few months had resumed a more or less normal life, working on a book and regularly celebrating Mass. His death came as a complete surprise to Jiis doctor, Charles Dubost, who was away lecturing at a Mexican university...
...achieve this worthy goal he must cross a countryside of the 14th century ravaged by war and fear. He must undergo many adventures and many hardships. For his route lies directly down the road of life, and yea, verily, his journey is A Walk with Love and Death...