Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dwight Fiske ditty that holds that "caviar comes from virgin sturgeon" is biologically misleading. Since sturgeon eggs are fertilized externally, after they have been released by egg-bearing females, all female sturgeons are virgins, by mammalian standards, whether or not they have produced caviar...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case there is much to be said on both sides...
...time, Emile enjoys a mindlessly sensual affair with a married woman (Janet Ward). But the lure of the egg is too strong. He marries a bureaucrat's daughter and becomes a civil servant. When his wife is unfaithful, Emile turns venal and takes money from her lover "for the entertainment." Fearful that the pair might kill him, Emile murders his wife with the lover's revolver. In a hilarious scene of courtroom parody, the lover is sentenced to a 20-year jail term, and Emile yelps gleefully to the audience "That's the system...
...Egg has been directed for its racy blue lines rather than its wry black comedy theme. Dick Shawn is miscast as Emile. He is funny, versatile and energetic, but he lacks what the role most needs-lack of confidence. The world...
Shawn's oyster rather than an uncrackable egg. The shiver of terror that should accompany the transformation of the timidest soul into the tawdriest heel is thus lost. In scenes of inane family cackle, and in the spectacle of a cuckolded husband applauding his wife flagrante delicto ("Congratulations, Heloise. You're getting better every time"), Playwright Marceau approaches the existential nausea toward life that animates the "theater of the absurd" (TIME, Dec. 22). Sartre and Camus have obviously influenced Marceau, but the guiding philosophy behind Broadway's Egg seems to be Minsky...