Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monty Python's Flying Circus is a group effort centered around John Cleese, who, like the rest, is sliced from the Oxbridge fruitcake mold. There are some barriers to enjoying it--Monty Python's humor is based on a parody of British television, and although American TV is close enough for us to know what they're getting at, a lot of this stuff is bound to just pass us by. For some reason that may have to do with cultural heritage or perhaps their educational system, British audiences seem to respond most enthusiastically to jokes about transvestites and mutilated...
Perhaps Bob T. was right in his poem when he called me fortunate above all--I mean in having a mind that can express--no, I mean in having mobilized my being--learned to give it complete outcome,...that I have to some extent forced myself to break every mold and find a fresh from of being, that is of expression, for everything I feel or think. So that it is when it is working I get the sense of being fully energized--nothing stunted...
...awful. There are no technical stunts in the movie, but there is one rather flabby device: the hero, a puppeteer named Malcolm Shanks, is a mute. Since he is played by Marcel Marceau, he is also a mime and really requires no words. The plot, which is crusted with mold, involves a fantasy in which Shanks dreams of a spooky old house (not the one on Haunted Hill, however), a nice old mad scientist and his experiments in which the dead can be made mobile like puppets...
...second attitude makes rape possible. The first makes it impossible, almost literally, to be prosecuted. Both reinforce each other. By unconsciously defining the sacrosanct woman, belonging to her husband or father and chaste, men have thrust the majority of modern women into the other mold. A woman in control of her own life cannot be cast readily into the virgin/saint role. So she is cast into the role of whore. And in the mind of the rapist and in the courtroom she is no longer the victim, but the perpetrator: "She was asking for it," comes the matter-of-fact...
...narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even has a warning for Judy Garland: "Get off the pills...