Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...topmost stands are crumbled like stale cake. The poles, where pennants flew, are down or bent. Great fissures mark the walls. The clock and Scoreboard are stopped cold. Gray stones are piled like giant's chalk, where steps were, where thousands upon thousands roared for the winners. A dog scavenges in the shadows. More shots from somewhere. Near by, a bomb crater filled with water serves the people as a swimming hole...
...even bigger cause for gossip in Mexico City is the huge, five-house compound that the outgoing President is building for his family on a hill overlooking the capital. Cynics have labeled the complex the "dog hill," a reference "to a Lopez Portillo remark that he would "fight like a dog" to defend the shrinking value of the Mexican peso...
...Charles Higham tries to make a case that Errol Flynn was also sexually ambivalent-and argues, not quite convincingly, that Flynn was a Nazi agent of some sort. In This Life, Sidney Poitier confesses to catching an adolescent case of gonorrhea, and in Please Don't Shoot My Dog, Jackie Cooper claims to have been the teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr's 1966 autobiography, Ecstasy and Me: My Life As a Woman, which wound up telling so much that the "author" denounced it as "obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty...
...play, conceived of and written largely by Auden, is a series of seemingly peripheral scenes and songs in the modern disjunctive genre, tenuously held together by the quest of Alan Norman (played by Mark Driscoll) and his dog for the missing Sir Francis Crewe (Paul Warner). The general of Pressan Ambo, the rural English town where the quest begins, explains the dog's disloyalty to all as if he were speaking of the play itself: "It's his mongrel blood, of course No loyalty, no proper feeling...
...Auden's own witty and slightly bizarre sense of humor. And Max Cantor shines as the ridiculous subjectivist poet who tells Alan Norman that all objects exist only in the poet's mind: "If I shut my eyes they all disappear." The poet's theory is broken when the dog bites his hand, a simple, timely metaphor for the coming world...