Word: milk
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Playwright Tennessee Williams, 51, who likes to claim that his deepest compassion is reserved for things "not meant to win," feels very compassionate about The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. After having been stopped with it twice on Broadway, in 1963 and again in 1964, Williams took the religious allegory to the Actor's Workshop in San Francisco, labored for two weeks to clear the metaphysical boulders off the track. It didn't quite work out; the play remained disappointing and minor. On opening night after the first act, Williams nervously jumped from the Train...
...than primitive prisoners in their own land. Political rights have been denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites and the blood of cattle. The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot...
...high-protein diet, which included eggs, skimmed milk, ground beef, margarine, toast, tomato soup, catchup, green peas and applesauce...
...high-carbohydrate diet, with toast, corn, lima beans, shortbread, peaches, applesauce, pineapple, puffed rice, skimmed milk, grape juice, orange juice and a bit of sugar...
...Hallelujah Trail is bigger but not better than any of the recent comedies that are supposed to milk laughs from the sacred cows of the Hollywood western. The sheer bulk of the opus is one clue to its failure. Given a plot with several droll twists, Director John Sturges (The Great Escape, Bad Day at Black Rock) lets his camera roam freely over the Cinerama landscape, too often striving for epic effects when antic effects are needed...