Word: python
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MONTY PYTHON'S NEW album has three Side Twos and that's a hint that it's not one of their masterpieces. They advertise it as a "free record" you get for buying a "matching tie and handkerchief," which turns out to be a large piece of colored paper with a picture of what looks like John Mitchell strangled in his own tie. That's another hint...
...Evening of British Comedy involves excerpts, presumably, from Beyond the Fringe, Monty Python (and his Flying Circus), Flanders's & Swann's At the Drop of a Hat, and the Goon Shows of which I admit I've never heard. The others are all funny. Tomorrow and Saturday, 8 and 10 p.m. in the Dunster House...
...Something Completely Different is a film extracted from the BBC's madhouse revue Monty Python's Flying Circus, which is descended in turn from the gone-but-not-forgotten Goon Show of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. From the Goons, the Monty Python crew learned how to raise nonsense to dizzying heights: a filmed cabaret act of two brothers who play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies...
...their contempt by laying Tony's uniform on a stretcher with a pair of crossed crutches and some sanitary napkins and then splattering everything with catsup. On another occasion, Hall wrote, some players deliberately tried to hit General Manager Dick Walsh (known to the team as "the Smiling Python") with line drives while he stood on the sidelines during batting practice...
...juts into our eyes like a stiletto from the next century. Its proportions are so gargantuan that even an unwilling observer is thrown into the role of a tiny mannequin in an architect's scale model. The low-rise section has the sinuousness and personality of a granite python, and the tower rises mute like an Aztec altar. Some people claim that architecture like this requires a new grammar of response; I think instead that Mather House almost demands that we abandon our way of seeing...