Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nameless American Indian. 32 years old, "servant," as he describes himself, "to a memory of death." He already has plenty to remember. His older brother died at 14, crumpled by a car while trying to drive cattle across a Montana highway. After years of "making white men laugh" at local bars, his father failed to come home one night. He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift. The narrator thinks that something has died in him as well; he feels "no hatred, no love, no guilt, no conscience, nothing but a distance that had grown through...
...laugh. Lenny recalled in his autobiography "it was like the flash that I have heard morphine addicts describe, a warm sensual blanket that comes after a cold sick rejection." He was hooked...
This is one of those high-calorie family comedies in which the. characters shout a lot, laugh uproariously, cry a little and ponder life's minor ironies over a full dinner plate. At a guess, the playgoer should arrive gorged, since the theatrical repast at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is just an amiable morsel...
...freezer ever since he had caught it on a trip to Ireland last year. He had finally thawed it out for dinner, but his wife refused to cook it, fearing that it had gone bad. So he threw it into the river. "I thought it would be a laugh if some fisherman found it washed up somewhere, but I never expected all this fuss," says Yallop. "I know it is the same fish because it weighs about the same, and it was bruised in exactly the same place." At week's end Thames Water Authority officials were still staunchly insisting...
...director, Frank Dunlop, who has already enhanced the year with the laugh-strewn Scapino, seems incapable of an error in pace, tone, stance or phrasing. He is a meticulous sculptor of actorscape-the distance, closeness, stillness and motion with which players relate to one another onstage. This company is not called the Royal Shakespeare for nothing: to the last man, woman and prop, it is most royal. ·T.E.K...