Word: skitterish
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Sleepwalking Tour. The tension should build, but instead it is dissipated. This is partly because the playgoer knows from the first skitterish-tigerish encounter that Chicken and Myrtle are fated to be sexmates. The dialogue is surprisingly colloquial for Williams and lacks the requisite venom or eloquence. Most damagingly of all, the play becomes a sleepwalking tour of the dusty attic of memory. Between coughing bouts, Lot recalls his Oedipalsy life with mother, and Myrtle shuffles through an account of her showgirl days with the Five Hot Shots from Mobile. The actors are uniformly admirable, and Estelle Parsons (Buck Barrow...
...Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" Béla Kun resting...
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