Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flea in Her Ear is an island of ferocious madcap in the art nouveau Paris of 1900. It is farce in the glorious tradition of farce, a cauldron of mistaking: the proper insurance broker husband, Victor-Emmanuel (Steve Kaplan) has a double who spends a besotted life waiting on the proprietor of the infamous Pretty Pussy hotel. The cleft-palleted innocent, Camille (Howard Cutler) is a well-juiced womanizer. Even the wife of the hotel manager is not the frowzy pile of heavy flesh she seems, for there was a time when she was served up nude on a silver...
Senelick's translation from the French is unspeakably good. He has wisely used current Americanisms to give the language the proper effervescense and irreverance. To render the play in early twentieth century American would have been a gray business: nothing is as dead as dead slang. Senelick's greatest triumph is his version of a Spaniard (Daniel Deitch) speaking English. Gerund endings are assiduously dropped where they should be; b's and v's are assaulted with appropriate force...
...high society, and pop culture -- and his main characters show remarkable social mobility in flitting from one to another. Old Society consists of dowagers who use the Social Register instead of a telephone book, the Episcopal Church, and Rolls Royce Phantom II town cars. No one gets in without proper credentials. But in The Beautiful Life those with proper credentials are leaving for more lively high times. For Dexter Knight, a homosexual society columnist and staunch defender of permanence, Old Society is the true, classic currency, or to switch metaphors, the official yard-stick by which to measure (and discard...
...rulese were a bit stiff-and in a few cases even silly. And after listening to the protests, Judge Paschen eased up on some points. The names of excused jurors could be printed, and a copy of the court record could be obtained each evening during the trial proper. As the selection of the jurors began last week in Peoria, it was also clear that reporters could leave and return during sessions as long as they did not stampede. After five days of effort, not a single juror had been empaneled., while 121 had been dismissed. Many objected...
...cracked. She is completely and very dangerously a virgin, whatever she does. The black cowled, nunlike presence which dominates the gothic dining room turns out to be her hooded photograph on a tripod. The eye socket of a black cowled skull in another room is the scareb ring's proper resting place, a fact which informs Hunter's close-ups on her eyeball. The only violence done the lady in the course of the picture is a systematic stabbing of her photograph, a truly shocking scene made horrible by the image's natural failure to change expression...