Word: shit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the preliminary performer was getting shit from the eager Bobby Sherman audience. He was singing folk songs, and the fans didn't go for it. There were persistent chants of "We want Bobby!" Imgine the insult. Here you are playing second to Bobby Sherman and you're getting shouted down. Shouted down in a Dorchester accent even. It came time for him to go, and he said a deathly cold "Goodnight" and disappeared. The fans cheered wildly...
...play is a prose-poem, a multi-media Greek tragedy: the pantomime of lovemaking, pregnancy, childbirth, all in rhythm; the sitting home waiting, the pains of leaving, all in rhythm; the cries of anguish, synchronized. The new-born parents dealing with newborn child ("It's a girl!"-"Oh, shit."), the kid jumping about uncontrolled as the father shouts helplessly, "Do something...
...word for it any more-his soul. He refuses to sit in the black section of the T. V. room. He refuses to be broken by solitary, by being kept caged twenty-three-and-a-half hours a day in an eight foot cell. He refuses, literally, to eat shit-for the white inmates in charge of food mix urine, feces and ground glass into the black inmates' dinner. He refuses to pretend to the parole board that he has become a "good boy." He refuses to hide his feelings about prison and those in authority from the eyes...
What makes Five Easy Pieces different from other recent American movies, though, is that Robert is detestable. He treats people, particularly women, like shit. He almost runs out on waitress Ray when she becomes pregnant, and, later, when she shows up at his father's home, he ignores her to the point of cruelty...
...instance, will the new complex (classrooms, labs, and 230 seat screening room) behind the present Welles Cinema open within the next two weeks as scheduled? If not, the practical filmmaking courses which will rely heavily on laboratory work, won't, as one UCA staff member said, "be worth shit...