Word: petered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bedbug, a satire of Party bureaycracy, describes the ordeal of a petty official who is frozen in an accident on his wedding day in 1929 and is defrosted in the Socialist world-state in 1979. This plot is barely intelligible in Peter Sellar's frenzied production, however. Mayakovsky's satire works mostly through verse, parody and puns--Sellars in effect obliterates all verbal content in frantic pursuit of visual pyrotechnics. Admittedly, The Bedbug demands to be staged as spectacle, but Mayakovsky also valued his words. Sellars' production reduces them to high-speed spurts of incomprehensibility...
Moreover, they have testified before a number of Senate committees, prompting Senators "to initiate energy conservation proposals which might not have been proposed," Peter Smith, a staff member of the Senate Energy Committee, said yesterday...
...capable of displaying a kind of cynical tenderness that lulled his victims into a trance before he turned animal and sank his fangs into their throats. The latter Dracula films were undercut by hackneyed scripts, but the first--Horror of Dracula--remains the best to date, aided immeasurably by Peter Cushing's bloody marvelous Van Helsing...
...Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙ Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙ Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙ The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙ To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
Directed by Peter Yates...