Word: rib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there requires several arduous weeks, not the 24 to 36 hours of a Flint Ridge cave crawl. But caving is difficult enough to call for a rare sort of courage and endurance. A common technique, horrifying to imagine, is to exhale in order to reduce the size of the rib cage, then squiggle along, unable to breathe deeply until the squeezeway widens. To do this in an unknown passage, realizing that rescue is impossible and that the passage may narrow, not widen, is not simply grubby-it is gallant...
...been heavily edited, probably in a Cuisinart. A lot of individual shots do not match. Once in a while, someone breaks into song, suggesting that The Blue Bird may once have been a musical. Director George Cukor is one of the most urbane American film makers (Adam's Rib, Holiday), but here both his good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp it up like movie queens...
...Neil Simon's. Or that the music and lyrics would be found in Stephen Sondheim's or Richard Rodgers' wastebaskets, let alone their bottom drawers. The book relies loosely on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, never as a spine chiller but as a rib splitter...
...ecstasy, presumably because it is more tactile, and the santeros lost no opportunities to stress it. Saint Acacius, an early Christian warrior-martyr, is shown crucified in Mexican military costume, flanked by a V-shaped row of contemporary soldiers. The gaunt, hacked Christs drip blood by the pint, their rib cages and muscles have a flayed pathos that transcends the crudeness of carving and drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force. In some ways the weirdest santos of all were...
They do, but there are rib-splitting complications involving studio moguls, frenetic decomposers of music and lyrics, and the amorous son of a British lord...