Word: namelessness
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...tourists, the street is riding a sex boom strong enough to pay the rent on some of the city's most expensive real estate. As restrictions have relaxed, the pornography market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles and literary allusions are for Greenwich Village) observes that two years ago customers paid little attention to the aesthetic quality of models. Now a Playmate standard has begun to assert itself in exotic literature. Most of the customers are men, with the big rush arriving just after business hours...
...buyers, who put up $2,400 for Bert Lahr's cowardly-lion suit from The Wiz ard of Oz and $1,250 for Clark Gable's battered trenchcoat. Grace Kelly's gowns from The Swan were a fire-sale bargain at $150 and less, but another nameless fan had to go to $15,000 for Judy Garland's red slippers from Oz. As the bidding spiraled around him, Actor Jack Cassidy said, "I'll be lucky to get a spear from Ben-Hur." As it turned out, he didn't even get that...
...drag after awhile, so Rocco led them over to Brigham's. Other greasers looked them over. and kept their mouths shut. They went right by Brigham's and over to the Nameless. They just wanted to see a few beatniks. Just as people in there were getting shaken up about Spider and his buddies, the bouncer came over and chased them out. Told them they smelled bad, too. Spider said they shouldn't take lip like that, but Rocco told Spider he was a pimp. They scrammed...
...clambered down a 1600 foot escarpment. She learned. She discovered Ada was right, and paid the price. She ended up face down in a ravine at sunset, belly aching and self broken open and bleeding red and sweet like a pomegranate. When Merilee crashed at the bottom of a nameless and uncharted pit, she was too gone to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions who came to view her Gulliverian hugeness, too exhausted to make it to the next ridge and the twilight blue beyond it. Little girls with broken hearts would make the bravest soldiers. Beyond the loss...
...Company completes this process of transforming the musical. This show has fourteen charaters and all but one of them also serve as nameless vocal commentators on the action. Very few scenes are broken up by characters bursting into song; all songs fall between scenes or, if they do interrupt the script, are sung by performers who are not in the scene which is being interrupted. The work of Rodgers and Hammerstein has been undone atlast. We are back in some sense where the musical started structurally-only the musical numbers are now not irrelevant to the show but complementary...