Word: puce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning combination. A fortnight ago the Comédie opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau's La Puce à l'Oreille (A Flea in Her Ear) and Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias...
Without pity or grief or laughter, anger is neither moral nor healthy but simply dehumanizing. In Ionesco's scenario, just before the planet blows up, a man sitting in a café turns puce and explodes. Which is more destructive, Ionesco seems to ask, the atom bomb that swats all those flies or the chain-reaction anger behind it, disintegrating a man into his obsessions? In either case, the Ionesco moral is clear: in the 20th century, anger requires safety standards...
...Exec: We've already done that. I mean something fresh for the youth market. How about it? [He looks up and down the bench. Finally Subordinate No. 3, easily distinguishable from the others by his long hair, his love beads, his puce bell-bottoms and the sweet-smelling smoke coming from the thin cigarette between his fingers, casually raises his hand...