Word: simpleton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashioned allegory play dolled up for the stoned age. Its recounting of the life of the great Russian dancer is set to a schizoid musical score (electronics by Pierre Henry, schmalz by Tchaikovsky). To Béjart, Nijinsky is a cast of characters all by himself-artist, simpleton, genius, child of nature and clown of God. Nijinsky also went mad in his last years and thought he was Jesus. Drawing on that, Béjart goes on to pose Nijinsky as a symbol of Man. On that allegorical level, the ballet is a paean to love as the true expression...
They will soon return. Against Amy's wishes, David gives shelter to the village simpleton Henry Niles (David Warner), who has accidentally killed a young girl. The men come looking for him, but David refuses to surrender the fugitive. He has been pushed too far. "This is my house," he says. "I will not allow violence against my house...
Thereafter, coincidence takes control. "1 am Chance the gardener" is heard by the woman as "I am Chauncey Gardiner." When she brings him home for first aid and her husband asks Chance about his business, the simpleton's candid replies are interpreted as wise metaphors. When the President meets Chance while visiting the industrialist, he asks his opinion of the depressed stock market. "In a garden," says Chance, "growth has its season ... as long as the roots are not severed, all will be well." The President uses the line on TV and credits Chauncey Gardiner. The press assumes...
...disgruntled applicant called his parents to break the news. "How can they do this to me again?" his father asked. "To fill out those forms right you'd have to be a human computer or an absolute simpleton, and I'm neither...
Despite the safety and power of his position, Monk is slightly disturbed. He introduces into his description of the Waipori millennium the exercise books of a retarded girl named Milly Galbraith. Hers is the traditional tale told by the classic simpleton that unwittingly speaks the truth. As Milly wonders about her fate under the H.D.A., her naive narration and bad spelling redeem words from the neutrality of numbers...