Word: hagridden
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy of truth and consequences on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is talent on both sides of the family...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Edward Albee's drama about a venomous all-night orgy on faculty row has reached the screen with every four-letter word intact. And Elizabeth Taylor, playing bitch-wife to Richard Burton's hagridden husband, proves that there is powerhouse talent on both sides of the family...
Albee, America's current master of theatrical invective, uses it here for potshots and heavy artillery in a marital Armageddon. His chief combatants are a pair of matched failures: George is an ineffectual, hagridden history professor; his wife Martha is the university president's daughter-a bitchy, aging man-eater with a father fixation and a casual lust for younger chaps. The entertainment takes shape very late one evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy...
Wales in the 19th century was barren, poor, diseased and hagridden with superstition. It was, in short, picturesque but a tough place for Welshmen. Seen in retrospect by Welsh Novelist Jones, it remains determinedly picturesque but a hazardous place for novelists...
...elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western men do, and they...