Word: hyena
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wild walking intoxicates the Toad. But all walking is a matter of style. In finer sensibility, Toad might admit that a tramp through hyena droppings would rank pretty low on the evolutionary scale of walking...
Life and death coexist with a unique ecological compactness. Nothing is wasted. First the lion dines, and then the hyena, and then the vulture, then the lesser specialists, insects and the like, until the carcass is picked utterly clean, and what is left, bones and horns, subside into the grass. It has been an African custom to take the dead out into the open and leave them unceremoniously for the hyenas...
...fugitive, Fred. Lambert, best known for his lead role in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, invests a lot of intelligence and humanity in his role as a curiously pathetic underground rogue. When he blows a safe, or cracks a joke, he lets out a little cackle like a parched hyena. And when his character is quite literally resurrected at the film's insipid conclusion, Lambert's performance comes close to resurrecting the picture as well...
...sweat coming out of his ears. And the acting by the supporting cast also is fine, especially by John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...
...Hughes shuns the glitzy, social side of art, rarely attending gallery openings. Says he: "In this game it is better to be a hyena than a corgi. Critics who embed themselves too deeply in the art world run the risk of being sucked under." Few art dealers have forgotten a scalding satire of the SoHo gallery scene in New York City that Hughes wrote in the style of an Alexander Pope poem for the New York Review of Books last year...