Word: handkerchiefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third album--Matching Tie and Handkerchief--is a let-down, although the Oscar Wilde party and Cheese Shop routines are excellent the first two times around and the Australian University philosophy department drinking song is something which, if you can't exactly dance...
...battering of water that had surged over a nearby riverbank. "It was like a wild thing," Pablo Venture told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who visited the stricken town last week. "Our house turned over and then vanished. Three of our children completely disappeared." Wiping his eyes with a dirty handkerchief, Juan Ramirez sobbed, "Dios mio! What has happened to us? My wife died, and now the water has taken seven of my beloved grandchildren...
...director Tunc Yalman maintains the verbose proceedings at a lively pace and uses the play's plentiful with to maximum advantage with frequent humorous bits of business. Some of Yolman's devices seem toofar-fetched, such as when he sends Mrs. Tarleton rushing to place her handkerchief over a small skull displayed on the writing table during a speech about her dead child. But countless other touches are hilarious and enhance Shaw's clever dialogue...
...effects, magic that can be done around coffee or conference tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...
Even more popular than the effects is the vast array of magic literature. Some dozen magazines promise knowledge that only the ancients possessed. Perhaps the least savory is Chaos, a Canadian publication devoted to blue magic-a handkerchief under its direction can easily be folded into the shape of female genitalia. The most conscientious is the brilliantly edited monthly the Pallbearers Review. Despite its name, the Review is a shrewd, technical publication that separates the amateurs from the prose. Editor Karl Fulves has no patience with those who boast of occult powers, and specializes in explaining the mechanics...