Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like far ladies in sack races, you'll love Ubu Roi. Alfred Jarry's fat lady galumphs along riotously, but about two-thirds of the way to the finish line, with all that painting and sweat, she gets a little painful to watch...
...that the Quincy House Drama Society hasn't given her a lovely sack. Director Paul Zimet has mixed a wacky fondue of bright costumes, absurd props and hi-grade ham. Masked soldiers rush each other with pink sausages for swords, dashing about like a Polish division of the Keystone Cops. Andrew Weil as Pere Ubu, the fat man who usurps the Polish throne, leads the whole menagerie. He bellows like a bull, whines like a hyena and eats like a pig. Mere Ubu (Virginia Morrs) comes on with a Bela Lugosi accent, smelling roses, swearing at her husband and slaying...
...protuberant eyes" sitting across the aisle. Metaphors incubate by the dozen in Teter's fecund prose, sometimes overgrowing it altogether. But Teter's style is more inventive and exuberant than turgid. For instance: "If the bus weren't mounting she'd drop on the floor, restribute burst like a sack of seeds, sprout into wakefulness...
...saves a boatload of burning explosives, ferries them upriver to help the natives of the fictional land of Patusan, who are fighting a tyrant general (Eli Wallach, aping Fu Manchu). Victorious, Jim settles down with a dusky girl (Daliah Lavi), then has to dispose of villains who plan to sack the village treasury...
...PIDE interrogation center in Lourenco Marques, Siguake was forced to watch the fatal beating of a friend, then to carry the friend's bloody body in a sack out for burial. Because he was known outside the country, the police were afraid to kill him, but they stood him facing a wall for six days of questions until he collapsed in pain and was hospitalized for a month...