Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horses, by the way, are simply tall men in chestnut track suits. On their feet are strutted hooves about 4 in. high. On their heads are airy, stylized masks of interlaced leather and silver wire. These possess such hieratic dignity and beauty that a special citation should be awarded Scenery Designer and Costumer John Napier. How could these noble animals be maimed by a boy who revered them? For answers, Playwright Shaffer digs into his rather voluminous bag of stereotypes. Alan's mother is a frigid religious hysteric, compellingly played by Frances Sternhagen...
...Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will do for his fellow cons' self-esteem and dignity. Robert Aldrich, the hell-for-leather director of items like The Dirty Dozen, fills the sound track with the crunch of every bone, the sight track with every splat of blood he can manage-terrible stuff, but viscerally stimulating. In a simple-minded way, it is also very effective, literally capable of making an audience stand...
...greatest snowfall, a lone figure trudged down Plympton St. and into The Crimson building. Placing his overstuffed briefcase in the downstairs office, the man turned up his collar and announced he would return after running several errands. An hour later, Robert Fuller Duncan '12 snatched up his beaten leather bag, climbed three flights of stairs and spent the rest of the morning in a tiny, cluttered office politely cajoling former Crimson editors into contributing money for a new press. The former Crimson president was 84 years old, but the undergraduates who worked with him could barely keep up. A week...
...fifth commandment requires a demonstration for many who visit the vans: putting on tefillin, the phylacteries that Orthodox Jewish males over 13 must wear on their foreheads and left arms (near the heart) during weekday prayer. The tefillin-two small leather boxes containing scriptures similar to those in the mezuzah and wound on with leather thongs-are a sign that the wearer subjugates his heart and mind to God. Wrapping on the tefillin for the first time is the high point of the Jewish religious initiation for males, the bar mitzvah ceremony. When an uninitiated Jewish male drops...
...FILM is further disjointed by a huge block of time spent on a caricature of a superpig Fascist, Spatoletti, who patronizes Salome, calling her his "golden ass." Images pile on top of images--Spatoletti's round head sheathed in a leather motorcycle cap; his high black boots and fisheye goggles; a demonic grimace; an imperial pose in the arms of an ice-blue marble statue eerily lit at night; an encounter with a peasant who lost two fingers to Spatoletti's knife and now jokes nervously, "I make the sign of the cuckhold when I salute Il Duce." Wertmuller...