Word: inge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be expected, was contradictory. The defense lawyer claimed that the white cop was really at fault for "harassing" a black by bellowing out "White Power!" and "We need to kill this black bastard!" The prosecution argued that the defendant had repeatedly referred to a policeman as a "f-ing pig," and had tried to elude arrest...
...counts to ten and talks about sleep in a sing song voice: "ONE You-feel-very-relaxed TWO You-are-fall-ing-to-sleep THREE ..." As he reaches the higher numbers, he begins to do a weird little dance, waving his arms like an albatross taking off, and lapsing into a chant: " Dee -perr and dee -perr...
...bitter skits flow into one another, using actors as interchangeable parts, a cast of 17 playing 88 roles, stylized and depersonalized. They reach hallucinatory heights. Once, Ionesco simply puts two rooms onstage, furnishes them identically with a bed, a chair and a wait ing woman, and brings their men to them defying the curfew. "I had given up hope," each woman says, and from there the dialogues of loving, reassuring cliches go on in strict musical parallel, words and acts in either room echoing within moments in the other...
...Buchwald's first play, Sheep on the Runway, is a cartoon allegory. Flush with military hardware but low on brainpower, a group of bumbling, do-good-ing, fast-talking Americans lead a small, neutral Himalayan nation in Asia into a deadly heap of trouble. The difficulty with themes like this is that a playgoer is not quite sure whether he is experiencing the shock or the drone of recognition. An audience should never know as much as or more about a play than the playwright does...
...bring a pack lunch. The afternoon lasted thirty minutes long (??) World War II (??) on the (??) nubmered seven at their peak not counting a fellow who came to (??) the Co (??) machirre. Coach Edo Marion sometimes turned his back on the action to post notices on a blackboard about ape?ing matches at Holy Cross, bus schedules and pre-game meals. Directors, hearing much resemblance to references stopped the action in numerable times to give opinions as complete and lengthy as edicts returned by our higher courts. You cannot smoke in the fencing room without offending fire marshals, the disciplinary committee...