Word: flyblown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company throughout the ten-month season and blend smoothly into the overall musical texture. Instead of garnishing glorious music with pageantry and posturing, Hamburg produces cohesive, hard-hitting dramatic performances, in which the text is as important as the score. And instead of sticking with proven but sometimes flyblown versions of operatic warhorses, it mounts eight new productions every year, two of which, like Jacobovsky and The Visitation, are commissioned works by contemporary composers...
...trails after the sailor, she and the stone wall traipse from Greece to Alexandria to dullest Africa, for no other reason, it seems, than to run into an overblown Levantine (Orson Welles) and a flyblown white hunter (Hugh Griffith). In the end the sailor remains unfound. Perhaps, ventures Bannen, this romantic ideal never existed. "But if he didn't," allows Moreau. "we would have had to invent him." Translation: We all need our illusions no matter how false we know they are. After seeing Tony Richardson's most recent flopdoodles-Mademoiselle, The Loved One, and now Sailor-moviegoers...
...experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...
Julius jumped into his Land Rover and began beating through the bush. In flyblown Indian Ocean towns and sun-seared mud-hut villages in Chaggaland, he recruited new grass-roots leaders and urged participation in the self-help program...
...flyblown Albanian capital of Tirana, tough police had marched into and taken over five buildings that once served as Soviet embassy headquarters, before the two countries broke diplomatic ties in 1961. The buildings had been under the care of three Soviet "technicians," and the seizure followed an unsuccessful campaign to pressure the caretakers out by cutting off their water and electricity. For Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian...