Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What seems to keep them unhinged in Act I is the sheer lack of anything to do. Newton fiddles with his curly 18th century wig, Einstein saws at his fiddle, while Solomon keeps listening for those voices in his head. The lady hunchback (Jessica Tandy) who manages this loony bin shuffles around like a witch off a broomstick. Her charges all murder their nurses...
...hospital psychiatrist, would actually like to convert her. He has written a daring little psychological masterpiece called Masturbation Nowl In it, he contends that "heterosexual love-making is the root of all neuroses, a shabby illusion which misleads the ego." But Krankeit is the exception. Others, like a hunchback in Green-wich, have one simple desire...
...those who find the building intriguing in such respects as its constantly changing appearance as one walks past it, there are probably as many who feel that its style fits poorly with the buildings around it, that the third floor studio looks from Oxford St. like a hunchback on stilts, or that the large lecture room resembles a multi-colored gas chamber...
...friend's defense. "He came back from the war with 14 bullets in his body," said Evtushenko, "and I hope he will live many more years and produce many more fine works of art." "As people say," shot back Nikita brutally, "only the grave corrects a hunchback." Evtushenko managed a brave reply: "I hope, Comrade Khrushchev, we have outlived the time when the grave was used as a means of correction." The audience was stunned, then burst into applause; even Khrushchev sheepishly joined...
Died. Charles Laughton, 63, matchlessly versatile character actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in Hollywood. An English hotelkeeper's son, the rotund Laughton studied for the London stage, but his star rose on the screen with one tour de force after another-as a warmhearted gargoyle (Hunchback of Notre Dame), a thundering misanthrope (Mutiny on the Bounty), a ribald monarch (Henry VIII), an oratorical Southern senator (Advise and Consent). He was honored with Oscars, but cared little for the trappings of a star; as he himself said: "The truth is, I'm an incurable...