Word: lamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barn to feed some kittens. As she reaches into their box a hairy face rises up behind it, the face of a man (Alan Bates) she has never seen before. "Who are you?" she asks in terror. The man, who is actually a killer on the lam, stares at her blearily a moment, then falls back into the straw, too tired to do anything but curse his luck. "Jesus Christ!" he groans...
...that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry Aldrich has combined crepes and satins with spangles of jet, gold and silver; John Moore of Talmack has a sequined muu-muu that is more froufrou than a tutu, while several other designers are going in for encrusted chiffon, quilted gold lamé and damask...
...bite. Now and then the gags and goings-on go sour, or the story droops: Nestor-Oscar, for example, outwears its welcome. But under Peter Brook's brilliant direction, most of Irma moves remarkably fast, with the advisable speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite Monnot's score has a gay street-music tinniness that can have resonance too, as in the rousing wail of From a Prison Cell or the ring and bounce of There Is Only One Paris for That...
Biblical Stock Market. A one-day, Soviet-style marriage with a grim giantess (who loved him only for his living space) causes Lasik's political doom, and he is finally forced to take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz...
...Blows (French). A small boy takes it on the lam from the mean and loveless world of his parents. But under François Truffaut's direction, society itself takes the blame for his flight...