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...imagine I am using them. The earth itself is wet black and you can shove a spade down into it up to the handle without hitting a rock. A tin can will grow here...The narrator's muffled but desperately articulate voice speaks as if from a dungeon of alienation: the voice pleads with the reader for understanding, and as the speaker surfaces out of the narrative sporadically to grope at us, the torture of writing such a chronicle becomes a major theme. With a style like that of a mole burrowing furiously inches below the soil, sending...
...version of Man of La Mancha from racking up 2,328 performances in New York City alone, besides being translated into almost as many tongues as the King James Bible. Nor has it forestalled this epically vulgar movie. Dale Wasserman's script plunks Cervantes down in a dank dungeon to await his trial by the Inquisition; there he performs Don Quixote as a charade for the amusement and instruction of his fellow prisoners. Peter O'Toole acts both Cervantes and Quixote about as well as Wasserman has written them, although to his credit, he looks a little skeptical...
...Letters from the Prison of the System. "In the movies," he wrote, "[imprisonment] can be painful, but it's always in a certain intellectualized way. In reality there's only suffering, hate, stink, sickness. The blond hero who comes to lead his men after years in the dungeon doesn't exist. What comes out is a tired person who stinks or is tubercular. That's the reality...
Stoughton basement became rapidly transformed into the stereotype student-renovated dungeon--daglo-painted and well cluttered with wall hangings. People Switchboard had finally become a physical reality...
What a feast of previously unpublished material it contains-everything from an encounter between Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in a Kremlin steam bath ("a converted dungeon of the early czars") to Stalin's private reaction to North Korean Premier Kim Ilsung's invasion of South Korea in 1950: " 'That Asiatic m- ,' Stalin cursed under his breath in Georgian, 'has made a fool...