Word: lice
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...performance brings the concept of complaint to its highest reaches, with a successful method that can only be called nervous nonchalance. All in all Sam Shepard's play is so vigorously acted that one's magnanimity cannot help but extend to the entire cast of thousands of crab lice...
WHEN THE EMIGRANTS first sight the ocean, it ripples in a shimmering vision of release. On board, however, new catastrophes begin to recur, and Troell must hit the same balance as before. There is scurvy and lice and stink. But there is also the beauty of a calm sea and sunstroked sails, and a joyous on-deck dance. In America, new wonders and horrors are evoked: the awesome countryside and native paraphenalta, the strangeness of the language and the relative social freedom. And slowly, the Swedes become a small community. Old prejudices fade before new awareness and necessity. The whore...
Joel grows ever more savage and even takes to intimidating Norah's two kids. Meanwhile, a beautiful model, a girl friend of Joel's, is found beheaded in her apartment. The killing, the po lice insist, bears an uncanny resemblance to mutilations performed the previous summer in Central Park by a Puerto Rican named Tonio Perez. Tonio was a close friend of Joel's, but Tonio, as it happens, is now dead...
...tested; the forlorn, rumpled figure of a woman in the snow who committed suicide by touching the high-tension barbed wire around Auschwitz; SS guards abusing prisoners. But he also has dozens of other details-women carrying soup in heavy barrels, prisoners being mustered for work, men searching for lice, sick call, scenes in a mess hall-until the whole experience seems so matter of factly part of life that it cannot be protectively blocked out of the mind as some sort of nether worldly nightmare...
Akihito, 37, has inherited his father's biological interests and specializes in fish morphology. Second Son Hitachi, 35, is also a scientist. One of his specialties is Japanese bird lice. Hirohito's youngest daughter, the chic former Princess Suga, 32, was once a disk jockey in Tokyo, is now consultant in a boutique in Tokyo's Prince Hotel...