Word: iguana
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...belied by the above catalogue, there is not a lot of stylistic unity on Invisible. The one constant on this disk is Hitchcock's bizarre sense of humor, which leads him to rhyme the word "spanner" with such unlikely choice as "banana" and "iguana." When the aim is scabrous, Hitchcock creates "Trash," a scathing put-down of the star-fucking mentality in rock and roll and an explicit tribute to Lou Reed's "Dirt." But at his most playful, he comes up with "Point It At Gran," a suggestion to a gun-toting assailant...
...smoldering portrayal of Maggie in the 1957 Paris stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ignited her career as one of France's greatest actresses. She was 29. Now, 28 years later, Jeanne Moreau will star in another Tennessee Williams play, The Night of the Iguana. But this production is American, and she will be performing in English, the first time she has done so onstage. Opening in Baltimore in two weeks and on Broadway in November, the revival does not overawe her. "I don't think very much about what is dangerous or not," says the former...
...laurel as America's greatest playwright, Williams left no posthumous masterpiece. Indeed, unless future generations discern something more than glimmers of incandescence in the murky, forgettable plays of his last two decades, his effective career may be said to have stopped after the production of Night of the Iguana in 1961, when he was 50. He staggered on, sometimes crazy and always outrageous, until his strange death, from choking on the cap of a bottle of barbiturates...
...social exiles were reviled, not merely because they belonged to an oppressed group but because there was something deeply askew in their psyches. Williams pursued men sexually but delighted in the company of women and viewed most of his heroines as extensions of himself, valorous but doomed. In Iguana, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he sketched the lives of a wandering poet, a lonely small-town maiden, a rapaciously promiscuous homosexual and a weak boy who failed his family. All reflected the author's image of himself...
Like the animals from which they came, the fossils are tiny, many smaller than a matchstick. Says Krishtalka: "One rarely finds small specimens preserved so exquisitely." Animals that have been identified include bats, monkeys, iguana-like reptiles, a possum-like marsupial and salamanders. The scientists have yet to label the new species but have linked them to the lizard and shrew families...