Word: horsewhip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humorless selfimportance: "I am the most serious man of our age." Early this year, the most serious man of our age proved that life can be dangerous for an Outsider inadvertently caught indoors (TIME, March 4). His girl friend's father nearly scrambled the egghead with a horsewhip after bursting in on the cozy couple with some gaslit stage dialogue: "Aha, Wilson, the game...
...emphasis of this production is clearly on the first two words of the title. The script is one of Shakespeare's most fast-moving, anyway; but the directors have pruned it and relentlessly applied the horsewhip until it emerged as a fast, furious and frolicsome western. The lights go down; we hear a habanera; someone dashes down the aisle from the rear of the audience, leaps on stage and fires a rifle. From then on to the end we are swept up in the production's riotously breathless pace. Other characters race down the aisle...
...love, mousy Joy Stewart, 25, in his bohemian quarters in London's West End. Without warning, the door of the book-glutted flat was suddenly flung open and in burst Joy's enraged father. "Aha, Wilson! The game is up!" roared Accountant John Stewart, 58, brandishing a horsewhip. Beside Father Stewart stood his wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed-up Stewarts, Colin Wilson had good reason to blanch: not 15 miles away he had a wife and son. With no further pleasantries, Mrs. Stewart fell to pummeling Philosophy...
Enter Franz. Her latest biographer, Helen Holdredge (Mammy Pleasant), labored hard to dig up all that is rich and rare about her favorite hussy. What was Lola's strange appeal? Her beauty? Her habit of wielding a horsewhip in order to discipline cynical newspaper editors who hinted at her Forever Amberguous relations with...
...wound up playing to miners in Nevada, and even worse, in the Australian goldfields. It was there, at last, that someone had the common sense to get on to the horsewhip dodge (which was the Victorian form of the modern gossip queen's "denial" of a "romance"). Lola was flailing away as usual at the local editor, a coarse colonial called Seekamp, when he hit her right back. It discouraged...