Word: grunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet. No one tells him to screw off. His coat is never brushed with a chalked cue. He moves slowly, says little, and says it in a deep voice that thuds on "d's" and rises at the end of a sentence to an interrogative grunt...
Tattered Memories. But that was all the show. Inside, as color-TV cameras recorded the event for 60 million viewers, the Oscar derby seemed more ticky-tack than ever. Even Bob Hope seemed off his feed ("I can't drink like Lee Marvin, grunt like Rod Steiger or enunciate like Sir Laurence Olivier. And when it comes to Richard Burton, I'm really in trouble"). What was billed as entertainment made The Beverly Hillbillies look good. The choreography was out of Busby Berkley; the filmed interviews with former winners seemed like tattered memories from a discarded album...
...works rather like an indentured servant. "Old Screwballs," as Gareth refers to him, is clench-lipped, word-shy, and sclerotically set in his ways. An evening with him is an unaltering ritual of despair: one cup of tea (never two), a game of checkers with the canon, a grunt of shoptalk. Gareth's father puts on his glasses to see the paper, never his son. Yet there is a kind of love between the two, all the more painful for being inarticulate. The words that hurt the most on this final evening together are the words that...
...GRUNT is a current Marine Corps term for its infantryman...
...subtler conflict enmeshes Pizarro and Atahuallpa. The existential hero of nothingness encounters the Rousseauistic myth of the innocent child of nature, the noblest savage of them all. David Carradine plays the Inca with marmoreal stoicism, and Shaffer gives him a primitive sign-and-grunt language that sometimes reduces the son of the sun to the son of Tondeleyo. The cynic in Pizarro becomes enthralled by the savior in Atahuallpa, who has a shining conviction that his godhead will raise him from the dead. Pizarro dreads but courts the great Inca's murder. If Atahuallpa is resurrected, might not Christ...