Word: gorgon
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...Hardy. But they were lovable caricatures of the dolt in Everyman, a bow and fiddle striking delightfully dissonant chords in a mad world. Witless innocence was their hallmark. It purifies even a 20's sequence in which they are pursued, clad in underdrawers, by a pair of gorgon wives toting a shotgun to avenge some fancied infidelity-as they round the corner of an apartment house, a shotgun blast brings dozens of men tumbling out of all the doors and windows, each dragging his trousers behind him. The art of Laurel and Hardy has already enchanted millions, from Marshal...
Last night the Leverett House Opera Society opened its production of "Le Renard" and "The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore." I cannot isolate an impression of the music, the dancing, or the drama. I was left only with a memory of the unity of these elements, and that is the highest praise I can give an opera...
...burlesque, but a fable, and its content and method are more complex. Two forces oppose each other: a group of highly conventional townspeople, and a strange young man. The young man--a poet--intrudes upon the townspeoples' Sunday strolling, introducing first a unicorn, then a gorgon, and finally a manticore. Each time, the people ridicule him, but promptly imitate him. As soon as each household has acquired a unicorn, the poet's dream is reduced to a fashionable banality. As he introduces each new beast, the poet says he has killed its predecessor. When he disappears, the people assume that...
...Gorgon & Thor. Hank Bauer is the kind of man everybody wants for a friend-because only a suicide would want him for an enemy. When he frowns, Gorgon shudders. When he talks, Thor answers. He is all bituminous at heart, but he is hewn of anthracite. Bauer looks, says one Oriole player, "like an M-l ready to go off." He commands respect, he commands obedience, and he commands a certain amount of controversy. His own boss, Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, calls him "no great shakes as a baseball strategist" and says that he "manages by instinct." But Third...
...alone of all Victorian writers belonged to the top aristocracy, has no trouble handling those extra comic confusions that come naturally in a society where everybody seems to be related to everybody else. When he is being funny-for example, minutely recording the malicious troublemaking of an old gorgon ("all husk and fangs") named Lady Midhurst-Swinburne is a pretty funny fellow...