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Though she does not claim the ability make chalk drawings come to life or to build a stairway to the stars, she admits that "children sometimes identify me with Mary Poppins. Of course," she adds, "I have a china hen on my hall table that lays candies instead of eggs...
...argot of the French underworld, a poulet (chicken) is a cop, a poule (hen) a prostitute, and a maquereau (mackerel) a pimp. What caused the commotion this summer was the invasion of Nice by a band of poules and maquereaux who had left their native Algeria in the exodus of French settlers when the country became independent. The invaders found a friend in Nice-Gangster Ange Bianchini, 48, who dabbles in the manufacture of pastis, the licorice-flavored apéritif, as well as in crime...
...insists, is Mozart's Hamlet, written in profound relief and guilt shortly after his father's death. Indeed, Papa Mozart had trained his genius son from babyhood in every musical skill known to his cramped, parochial mind, then hovered over the outcome as possessively as a mother hen. On his final release from father, Mozart wrote his own saga of the father-murderer to whom seduction is a duty, and who is eventually condemned...
...sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
...rest of the cast cannot fill the vacuum left by this Joan, but George Grizzard achieves a telling comic portrait of the Dauphin. He is petulant, epicene; he oozes suppressed venom. Wandering erratically about the stage like an uncooped hen, he scratches up laugh after laugh...