Word: netherworld
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...highly competitive job?or drive a truck?without being forced to sacrifice her sexuality or the satisfactions of child rearing. A nation that softens the long and rigid separation of roles for men and women is also less likely to condemn the homosexual and confine him to a netherworld existence...
...industry busily replaces its craftsmen with product-mongers who think only of mass audience and TV sales. Contemporary social phenomena, prevented from developing in peace, are instantly exploited by a Hollywood desperate to be the first on the marketing bandwagon. Thus Hollywood supplies a hippie to the curious netherworld between San Francisco and New York--a hippie one step closer to reality than John Wayne's faceless chattering Vietcong, but already a stock figure for a director to plug into any context available...
Uncompromising in its vision, totally unfettered in its four-lettered speech, The Boys in the Band is a play that may be repellent to some viewers. Yet it also has an unmistakable dramatic intensity, a human and humorous appeal that surmounts the netherworld of its focus. The cast is expert, and the players interact with such flawless skill, grace and timing that they could declare themselves an ensemble company right now and be ranked with the best...
After two uninterrupted hours of this, some members of the audience may have welcomed the concluding thunderbolt from Zeus that plunged Prometheus into the netherworld; yet most cheered and stomped for 20 minutes when Orff appeared for curtain calls. The reviews were more divided. Hans Stuckenschmidt, Germany's leading music critic, wrote that "the performance counts among the best that one can see and hear today in European theaters." But Der Spiegel scoffed that the opera sounded like "a prehistoric equinoctial celebration of a voodoo ritual...
...happened to be the author of a source book on Tartar history. Incredibly, Mrs. Ginzburg was arrested and denounced as a Trotskyite and counter-revolutionary because she had failed to write a review for her publication denouncing Elvov's Tartar book. In short, the masters of a Brechtian netherworld of logical non-reason accused her of not doing something she had not done-and of course she could not deny not doing...