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...huts of El Mrassas. All across the desert burnoused villagers on camelback peered eagerly from sand ridges, hailed their long-absent leader with rifle volleys fired into the air. At the village gates there were more gunfire greetings. Local sheiks genuflected. Desert drums throbbed. Horsemen staged a riotous rodeo. His Eminence, calming the hubbub with a gesture, told his followers they must thank the British for driving out the Italians. Some day, he added, he hoped to go back to Girabub to live. While the tribesmen cheered, El Senussi retired for the night; next day his British guides shepherded...
Faddists of the primitive were fascinated. For Miss Willson's paintings (of subjects like General Washington on Horse, The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony, Riotous Living, Henry and His Pet Goat, Lovers) revealed a forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative, naive, fantastic. General and horse were suspended in air, unpropped by Delaware ice cakes or the neoclassic columns of Mount Vernon. The plume on the General's tricorne hat looked like a Christmas tree. Though utterly alone, the Father of His Country drew rein and fired his pistol...
...everyone else wore cloaks. He was proud to the point of arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...
...when it's gone," and the hell-roaring characters who lived up to the motto. Among them: Larry Mullins, a mine shoveler, who inherited $3,500 and spent it by installing a public harem in a hotel suite where he played host for a riotous three days...
When you leave the theatre you will know one thing definitely; you have just seen a good show, and heard some very powerful things said in a very powerful way, besides. Made riotous by asides to the audience, on-the-spot directing, and a collapsible set, "The Skin of Our Teeth" is a serious meaningful work however...