Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's knee. Later, Hamlet also turns up as the Gravedigger, hiding behind a Latin accent; in this guise he delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, thus turning the graveyard scene into a grisly essay on the meaning of death. The players' dumb show is omitted; instead, Hamlet lures his stepfather into mouthing the incriminating lines himself, until the drunken monarch suddenly stops in horror-struck realization of what he has said. The mindless bloodshed of the final scenes is emphasized by having the players settle their arguments in a chilling game of Russian roulette...
...Music Hall, Woody Allen produced a wicked parody called Bonnie's Clyde- with Allen as "Warren Beauty" and Liza Minnelli as "Faye O'Laye." Best boff: after Bonnie recites her ode to the Barrow Gang exploits, Clyde's brother Buck says, "I'm only a dumb hillbilly, ma'am, and I don't hold much truck with poetry, but you know what you've done?" Bonnie: "What's that, Buck Barrow?" Buck: "You've managed to combine the intellectual disillusionment of Eliot with the ambiguous symbolism of Baudelaire and still come...
...Reynolds urges that Man should provide a habitat For his poor hairy dumb relations, A sort of ape's United Nations. The state of Florida might serve As one great simian preserve, Where the whole tribe would perhaps thrive, Or just contrive to stay alive. And in this tax-free paradise Who knows, the ape might
...French and the Americans: The French are weak, cowardly, intelligent. The Yanks are strong, brave and dumb...
...sorry for them because they dimly remembered the powerful joy that had been theirs. They wanted so much to experience it again. But that joy was not to be found on the trampled field or within the steel scoreboard--and certainly not in the dumb, sexless eye of television. The joy was gone, locked into the past, into that time of great achievement when we were all heroes in raucous love...