Word: freaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noisy carnival with academic and social pretensions. All the members of Boston's growing aristocracy, every significant member of the various New England governments, royalists, patriots. Anglicans, and Calvinists, all attended the great Commencements of the eighteenth century and were followed there by spectacle-seeking hordes. Vending booths and freak shows were set up along the street in the College vicinity; there were elephants, mermaids, mummies, and mutants, all ostensibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...
...shallowness that leave the Broadway scene increasingly barren of authentic drama, honest emotion, and a conviction of reality. Broadway is stalemated between plays that cry in their beer and plays that munch cream puffs, between those that try to shock and those that aim to tease, between psychological freak shows and intellectual shell games. It is small wonder that people have been driven out of the theater when they find so little that is enduringly human...
...Charlotte is a gruesome slice of shock therapy that, pointedly, is not a sequel to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The two films are blood relatives, as Producer-Director Robert Aldrich well knows, but Charlotte has a worse plot, more gore, and enough bitchery to fill several outrageous freak shows...
...excels in comic parts of every description, doing full credit to Cumming's vertiginous imagination, "talking very beautifully" (as Me tells Him) in the poet's acrobatic language. Paul Benedict, a ubiquitous master of trades, is especially amusing as a drunkard, soap box orator, prude, interloper, private eye, gentleman, freak show barker, and Mussolini...
...Party was not a freak explosion of radical patriotism. Rather, it climaxed a long, uneven series of national differences and emotional misunderstandings ignited by the passage of the Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but the tax on imported tea was left in force. By 1770, however, efforts to organize a boycott of the wicked brew had failed. The prosperous colonies had grown too fond of the beverage to give it up, enabling smugglers to carry on a thriving trade in untaxed Dutch...