Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pointless experiments. But a few scenes later the director abruptly shifts his emphasis by showing a Woyzeck driven to murder the woman he loves because he assumed her infidelity based on the actual evidence. Meanwhile, Bouchard has also added two characters to the original script, a pair of mute, apparently insane figures who remain onstage on a raised wooden platform throughout the play. Whether these two silent figures, clutching at the empty air, represent Woyzeck's deteriorating mental state or whether they are intended as symbols of an extreme form of victimization remains unclear...
...bathroom is the most important room in any house. It is the one place where people can be nude, solitary and mute for any protracted period. It is a refuge for all reasons, serving also as laundry room, solarium, greenhouse and primping parlor, a place for delousing pets, deep thinking and stashing wet umbrellas. Yet even in its more basic functions, the contemporary American bathroom is "hopelessly antiquated and inadequate," in the view of Alexander Kira, an architect and Cornell professor who has immersed himself in the subject for 17 years. Indeed, he points out, the Western loo has changed...
...Joyce's readers. Bloom saw the "mellow yellow smellow mellons" of Molly's rump as a kind of ultimate healer of all his tensions, of his conflicting sense of envy, jealousy, abnegation, and equanimity, because they were "insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarities of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality...
...ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah remain as mute evidence of the judgment of God on this...
Bentley claims that his show is "theater of fact." True, he has invented not a spoken line of it, but facts are mute. They are animated by climates of opinion, and that social context is missing. Bentley simply relies on popular present attitudes to validate lofty moral judgments on the past. At the time the hearings were held, wartime amity with the Soviet Union had been crushed by the descent of the Iron Curtain, and there was a not unnatural suspicion, supported by proof which exists to this very moment, that the Russians were out to Communize the world...