Word: magoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magoo. "Many men had their wrists broken and their arms dislocated. The sessions lasted about 45 minutes and they were always accompanied by beatings with fists, slapping on the ears so hard that eardrums were ruptured. The guards looked for any little infraction so they could beat you. Our guard-we called him 'Magoo' because he looked like the cartoon character, all squinty-was vicious. He used to come in the cell about twice a week and beat John Brodak and me. Sometimes he'd beat us for no cause, just open the door, come...
DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL. The Thirty-nine Steps, The General, Mar. 9, 10, 8 & 10 p.m., $1. Kid's Film Festival: The Golden Fish, The Rink, with Charlie Chaplin, Gunga Din with Mr. Magoo; three cartoons, Mar. 10, 10 a.m. and 12 midnite, $.50 (midnite showing $.25 with stub from Fri. or Sat. night...
Truth of Truths (Oak, $9.96; two LPs). Nothing less than both Testa ments, from the Creation and Fall to the Resurrection and Prophecies. A DeMille-like cast of composers, arrangers, soloists, orchestra, chorus and a bored Jim Backus ("Mr. Magoo") intoning into an echo chamber: "I am the living God." Ghastly...
...with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas." Albert Finney, as Scrooge, knows how to act cold, and he knows how to sound cold. His performance is really remarkable, though after all he has dialogue that even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught...