Word: rhinocerosity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"It doesn't do to go against public opinion," an old friend whispers in Rade's ear, warning him that his fellow office workers are about to turn on him. His landlady talks in cipher to his fellow lodger, using "big, strong, black and forceful words, always heavy...
Westport, Conn., Westport Country Playhouse: Ionesco's Rhinoceros, with Walter Slezak doing the bellowing.
Zero Mostel, noted actor, will speak on comedy at 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Loeb Drama Center when he delivers this year's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture. Mostel, now playing in the Broadway show "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," also played the roles in...
Soon he became aware of a large noise. Karandas had returned, and was surrounded by a considerable number of unfriendly looking people. "There he is!" he shouted, pointing a fat finger at Biff. "Sitting over there under that bronze rhinoceros!"
"Rhinoceros!!" gasped Biff, cotto voce. "I thought it was the hippopotamus which had the horns." He turned to gaze mournfully at the green beast that had sheltered him briefly. And then his heart missed a beat: for impaled on the horn of the animal, and flapping gently in the breeze...