Word: helled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ridiculed it-as he did such other institutions as the Roman Catholic Church, the Christian Democrats and the CIA.) The playwright himself was stopped at the golden door, but his ideas, the quintessential and presumably most dangerous part of him, were free, theoretically, to sail in and raise hell up and down the American mind, waving torches, screaming anarchy. Somehow they do not seem that incendiary. Fo's creations sometimes look like Bertolt Brecht being done by the Marx Brothers. The anarchism savors of Duck Soup...
...could sense George slipping out of control. I knew if I failed to step in and calm him down. George would have to sit out school for a week. I would catch hell from Mom and probably lose car privileges...
...most conductive to an operatic production, the modest set with few props and simple staging enables the cast to move around easily, focusing our attention on their voices and gestures, rather than unnecessary production, as the cast deftly conveys the simple themes of good versus evil and heaven versus hell of the libretto, complemented by Mozart's score. The simple costumes, which can't be pinned down to any one era, and the sparsely furnished set suggests tone rather than time, giving the singers the opportunity to display their superb voices and at the same time revealing the agelessness...
Feldstein enjoys the limelight. Three weeks ago, he and his wife were in a Richmond art gallery when a man sidled up to him and said, "Give 'em hell." Feldstein beamed. He is receiving about 70 letters a week, most of them favorable. Keep it up." wrote a Seattle woman. "Thank you for calling 'em as you see 'em." wrote a man from Marietta, Ga. With supporters from coast to coast, maybe he will even find a few backat the Harvard faculty lounge...
...snapshot of a riddled body in his scrapbook. "Think of it," muses the author, "ten little hardball lawmen, shooting down Mexican bandits where they stand, out there in the cactus and rocks and tarantulas and scorpions ... If that wasn't a John Ford scenario, what the hell...