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...ground-floor room, the pimp will lower a rope to which the prostitute must fasten the money she has earned. One madam, named Aunt Miep. would get outraged if she heard a girl wasting time talking to a client, and would stamp her crippled leg on the floor and scream: "Get to work...
Most of their struggles are internal: soundless voices scream for help while faces keep smiling gamely. But Author Gordimer can describe the outer world as evocatively as the inner chaos of man. A slight story, The Bridegroom, comes alive in its loving account of a night on the Kalahari Desert, a vast stretch of grey sand, thorn bushes and cratered earth, under a "spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time...
...work unfolded without set pieces or arias, and the staging by Director Günther Rennert was similarly spare, e.g., when Jocasta (Soprano Astrid Varnay) learned that she was the mother of Oedipus she threw her head back with mouth agape in a silence more horrifying than a scream...
Unlocking a Mind. That haunting effect begins with the eerie, keening scream of the infant Helen Keller's mother (Patricia Neal) when she discovers that her child is deaf and blind. It is warmed by the first sound of the soft, self-assured brogue of Annie Sullivan arriving from Boston to take charge of Helen. It is nourished by the overwhelming urgency of Annie's every action, her passionate need to dispense with the amenities-and with the Keller family's sentimental softness-in order to get down to the awful business of unlocking a darkened human...
...Inch Scream...