Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic story stems from the unlikely premise of a family plagued by an anonymous baby's telephone calls. This incessant ring-ring, goo-goo-ga-ga subsequently transforms itself into a tenuous metaphor for familial deterioration--the Goldstein clan find themselves drowning in lunacy...
...stories they tell have the ring of male bull session. One man wearing blue work clothes tells how he tried to pick up a beautiful woman at a bar. "I went up to her and I said, 'Honey, name your price, I'll do anything but I have got to be with,'" he recounted. "So she turns to me and says, 'I go with women." Well that just floored me, I go with women, I couldn't believe it," he told the assembled coffee drinkers. "She just said, 'I go with women,' right there in that...
...what?" I asked, brushing some carbonized cocktail peanuts from my jacket. Rutger just shrugged. It appeared that the ring of Sandinista soldiers that had suddenly materialized out of the jungle would be making our decisions...
...readers who enjoyed Perelmania in five later collections of essays as well as a number of saline interviews and commentaries. It is true that personally Perelman was never Mr. Sunshine and that he always craved more recognition and rewards than he received. So did Mark Twain, W.C. Fields, Ring Lardner and many other American humorists...
...rude hut in Act I is an enormous wooden lodge, with an imposing tree growing in its center, while the landscapes of Acts II and III are rocky and forbidding. They are not so much sets as illustrations from a handsome coffee- table book, but they capture well the Ring's mythic atmosphere. Schenk's direction emphasizes the physical as well as physiological aspects of the Ring (all the characters are related either by blood or marriage): enemies grapple violently, lovers couple passionately, and Wotan embraces two of his children -- the dead Siegmund, the sleeping Brunnhilde -- tenderly and sorrowfully...