Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody knows what a schmurz is, but it seems as menacing as it is silent. Yet the family ignores it--except when, from time to time, they are kicking or beating or trying to strangle it. It never speaks, never makes a sound, but crawls on the floor and submits without so much as a sound to frequent assaults...
...schmurz is an endlessly silent witness to the strange antics of the father, the mother, the daughter and the maid of this family: people who would seem to be normal in many ways, for they sit and stare part of the time at a huge television screen where a hilariously silly soap opera goes on and on, interrupted by equally hilarious and equally foolish commercials. But they move a lot, and for reasons not clear...
...movies, on an idea by Boris Vian. While Hamlin agonizes, Shuman methodically constructs an altar to the America of puerile plastics and persuasive packaging, raising a miniature tower of cereal boxes and cleanser cans. The Smurtz Vian wrote was a sort of ambulatory picture of Dorian Grey, a silent and spongy presence who absorbed power from the gratuitous violence continually inflicted on him, an embodiment of the unrecognized depths of violence latent in a comically arch-typical family group. The Smurtz of Mr. Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped...
...Silent on McCarthyism
...theGlobehas at least temporarily resumed an editorial policy of neutrality regarding candidates, they are prepared to take flak from readers on issues. The same paper that remained silent on McCarthyism for fear of losing readers was one of the first papers to come out against...