Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-destructive mania for candy bars. To assume that the plot does not exist is merely to follow the playwright's lead, but it is more difficult to avoid Mildred's fantasy encounters with Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly and King Kong. These are as cute as quicksand and replete with campy posturing. Maureen Stapleton tries to enliven these proceedings with her patented brand of chicken-coop hysteria, which is itself fast becoming a theatrical hazard...
After almost two years in power -the anniversary will be on Nov. 3 -Allende presides over an increasingly angry country that is sinking ever deeper into economic quicksand. Everything from beef to butter and matches to auto parts is in short supply. Inflation has spiraled 63.5% during the past eight months; in August alone, the inflation rate was 22.7%, and the price of food soared an estimated 60%. The reason: in an effort to buy political support, the government increased the money supply by 115% last year, and is doing the same in 1972. The black-market rate for escudos...
...James G. Elaine Society's sole purpose is to keep outsiders out of Oregon. Besides advertising the rain, it publicizes Portland's high crime rate, cases of tick paralysis and an occasional quicksand alert. It chose its name because of its "antique flavor" rather than for any attributes of Blaine himself (1830-1893), a Republican Speaker of the House, Senator, presidential nominee and twice Secretary of State...
...woods, precious stones, exotic pelts and untold deposits of minerals. It is also one of the last places where the bloodshot eye of the fatigued humanist can still see in progress the fatal consequences of Eldorado: the destruction of indigenous peoples. Lucien Boclard, a French journalist and author (The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam), takes it all in, from the first Amazon man hunts in the 16th century to the huge inland island of Bananal where today Indian survivors stage ceremonies and even wars for tourist dollars in a government-built "primitive" village...
...house a more welcome prison. From her current vantage point, she's more like a burlesqued version of Mother Courage, hoarding her mementos, fearing sexual orgies going on in a locked-off room, generally despairing over "these days when dry mouth must kiss dry mouth." When she sinks in quicksand, her passing is no less sad for its predictability...