Word: dublin
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Orson Welles, who has had his share of curtain boos and offstage hisses, found that his mere presence in an audience could be hooted too. When he arrived at Dublin's Gate Theater to see a play, he was greeted at the theater door by a banner-waving picket line whose signs read "Not wanted, Orson Welles, Stalin's star . . . Dublin rejects Communistic front star . . ." But inside, Welles got cheers when he said: "I am not a Communist. I never was a Communist. I came here to see a play." He also got a character reference of sorts...
Telltale Curtains. The same is true of Russian building; the conditions under which most urban Russians live is worse than anything I have seen, even in the worst spots of Dublin or of Naples. The overcrowding is incredible - I found eleven families living in one small church. The houses that survive from Czarist days, of stucco or wood, have been untouched since the Revolution; they tilt and sag and crumble till it would be impossible to believe that they are inhabited, were it not for the lace curtains inside each window...
...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn,' wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street" [TIME...
...Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons steelyringing imperthnthn thnthnthn," wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. What he meant was that two barmaids, a redhead and a blonde, were listening to the clatter of dray horses in a Dublin street. Why, then, didn...
Anyone wishing to "acquire a bloody nose," remarked a British reviewer last year, need only go to Dublin or Belfast and spout a few well-chosen lines from Arland Ussher's The Face and Mind of Ireland. Ussher, an Irish philosopher and art critic, paid his people handsome compliments, but he also larded in some remarks that no Irishman could take lying down-e.g., "To all appearance the Irish really have no sexual life, beyond the minimum necessary to perpetuate their cantankerous species...