Word: excrementalism
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...remembers with exquisite intensity a deserted beach, a lover's touch, "the silence of the sky in my eyes." He gives a bluff account of a pond in the nearby park, some sniggering adolescents, the excrement of ducks. Dame Peggy makes her lines into the soliloquy of a Molly Bloom. Both casts have to make the most of the unspoken word, but the best-modulated pauses of all are hers...
...Calvary finally came on May 14, 1966. During a four-hour exorcism session, interrupted only for rest and prayer, the couple and four other men beat and tormented the girl with walking sticks, a riding crop and a rubber truncheon. She was made to eat her own excrement, then sent out on all fours to wash her clothes. Finally Stocker asked her whether she repented. After she mumbled a final yes, he left her alone, and alone she died...
...Indians who flourished in Latin America before Columbus, gold was absolutely sacred. The Aztecs of Central Mexico called it "teocuit latl," (the excrement of the gods). The Incas of Peru thought of it as the "sweat of the sun." The metal was so plentiful and easy to work that the pre-Columbian Indians used it to make earrings, pendants, funerary masks, drinking vessels, furniture, and even entire artificial gardens. In fact, they used the gold they loved so much for practically everything but money; for that, they chose humbler commodities like beans...
Verbal Combat Fatigue. The plot, insofar as there is one, is to get the fiance (Fred Willard), who wants to remain one in perpetuity, to marry the daughter and then do something or other with his life. As a photographer he has specialized in pictures of human excrement, which is presumably Feiffer's ultimate comment on the state of contemporary society. But the fiance is catatonically passive. At one point his would-be bride (Linda Lavin) says with caustic distress: "See, he doesn't know how to fight. That's why I'm not winning." Finally...
...that Essex County Judge Leon W. Kapp gave a "devastatingly improper and fatally unfair" charge to the jury. Kapp had also sentenced Jones to 30 days in prison for contempt after the playwright reacted to a ruling from the bench with what the judge termed "an epithet descriptive of excrement." The superior court, maintaining that Jones had not been given an opportunity to be heard, also ordered a new trial on the contempt charge...