Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opens, a personable young Indian porter named Galy Gay sets out to buy his wife a fish. The British soon impress him, however, to fill out a four-man machine-gun squad; the man he replaces has been scalped by a doorway while robbing a temple. By the last of the endings, he not only defies his former identity but has become "a human fighting machine...
...kept mum on his own police force's involvement in the kidnaping. And when a French magistrate finally played a tape recording reputed to carry the incriminating testimony of Paris Gangster Georges Figon (a participant in the plot who "committed suicide" just before French cops burst through his doorway), all that was heard was a trite cops-and-robbers script for a movie that Figon was working...
...Jusceli-no! Jusceli-no!" chanted a handkerchief-waving throng of 3,000 at Rio's Galeão international airport. Then from the doorway of an Air France 707 came the man, still trim and agile despite his 63 years, his face split in a toothful smile, his right arm swinging in a familiar jaunty wave. Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek-still admired by the people but loathed as a symbol of corruption by the present revolutionary government-had returned home after 16 months of self-imposed exile. Said he: "I have come back at zero hour...
Standing near the doorway was Tom Coleman, 55, a state highway engineer and part-time deputy sheriff, who had come to investigate the owner's complaint that the rights workers were causing a disturbance. Coleman carried a .12gauge automatic shotgun. According to one of the girls, Ruby Sales, 20, Coleman shouted at them as they approached the store: "Get off my goddam property before I blow your goddam brains out, you black bastards!" With that, she said, he opened fire...
Duerrenmatt meets Brecht halfway. He cannot write a drama that does not excite sympathy, any more than Brecht could himslef. So he uses the sympathy he creates to set up the kind of didactic theatre Brecht talked about. To return to the example of the body in the doorway: to have to walk over that actress labels her an effect. It creates a detachment and prevents the building up of a mystery-story suspense as the play begins; Duerrenmatt trusts that the suspense will develop but itself. At the end of the act, another body is on the floor...