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Aside from this "box spirit" innovation, the play remains essentially intact. The focus remains throughout on our crazed heroine, whose reputation precedes her. For, more than two millenia before Glenn Close wielded her first Ginsu or Farrah Fawcett burned her first Sealy mattress, there was Medea and her ignominious crimes of passion...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...sheets of a stranger's bed, she rolls over to find that her lover of the previous eve has a large machete stuck in the middle of his chest. "If that's one of those trick knives, you can pull it out now." Its no trick. Its genuine ginsu...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

Sorta like a ginsu, only more personal...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: A Lingering Feeling | 12/12/1986 | See Source »

...England Patriots borrowed Irving Fryar's ginsu knife on Sunday and turned the Dolphins into a mess of sushi...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Super Bowl Bound | 1/15/1986 | See Source »

...pity of it lago; oh, Iago, the pity of it," for example--the moment is improperly led into, susteained and followed through, so it doesn't reverberate as it must. When Jones does attempt something strenuous, it comes across ludicrous and perfunctory: His fit of epilespy suggests T.V.S. Ginsu chef after accidentally dismembering himself...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: 'The Pity of It,' Iago | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

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