Word: pinko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht, is a kind of pinko version of The Perils of Pauline. Grusha (Elizabeth Huddle) is a good soul, a simple kitchen maid who snatches up an infant princeling when the child is abandoned by the evil wife of the governor during a revolution in a legendary kingdom around A.D. 1200. With the baby strapped to her back, Grusha embarks on a series of adventures that include crossing a rotting bridge over a 2,000-ft. gorge with soldiery in hot pursuit, a marriage of inconvenience with a draft dodger, and a confrontation several years...
...sound track helps the already clever satire. There's not too much button-popping pride left in you when you hear "America, the Beautiful" again at the end. Most of the little parodies (like the Air Force officers who are worried about "the pinko prevert influence") come off well. Some individual scenes are truly memorable; director Tony Richardson has made Mom Joyboy's eating scene overshadow Tom Jones...
...when the pinko press attacked, with arguments that puzzled...
...many observers this flurry of interest in political campaigns is not merely a passing fancy. There is a widespread realization that the old tactic of peace marches and demonstrations are too easily dismissed as "kid stuff" or "pinko" by the public...
Like his strip then, Feiffer avoids sloganeering; but sometimes he can't help rephrasing a familiar homily. Once, after making a too-transparent reference to Operation Abolition he received a record quantity of adverse mail. To one woman, who had written "I can't decide whether you're a pinko or a yellowo," Feiffer replied, "Better yellow than Jello...