Word: slambang
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RHINOCEROS is the play that established Ionesco's international reputation, and it is still one of his best. It is the quintessential Ionesco play: a nightmare of wholly clogged, overrun world. Words, persons, things, and animals proliferate in a slambang of entrances and exits that snowball in a confusion of ceaseless movement. Theatricality and insanity, the two most potent themes of modern theater, are the subject as well as the method. A production of an Ionesco play involves almost as many problems as there are stage directions. The coordination of movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must...
...final year to help the team and set a good example for youth. "I rate team achievements," he says, "above individual attainments." The hero breaks school, conference and national passing records, wins the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding college football player in the U.S. Then, in a slambang finale, he leads his team to a thrilling upset victory in the Rose Bowl...
...Adman Frederick Bruns: "The priceless thing is repetition. You've got to get to a kid three to five times a week to get him to act on a message." Video Boy acts by nagging his parents to get him a "Blasto-tank-with-twin-rocket -launchers -by -Slambang -Toys." Once he gets it, though, he is invariably disappointed because the toy is always much smaller and much less exciting than it looked on the overdramatized commercial. Thus Video Boy learns a basic lesson of TV viewing: distrust...
BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit-agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...slambang, month-long campaign between Liberal Prime Minister Harold Holt and his opposition challenger, Labor Party Leader Arthur Calwell, has focused the country's attention on the key question of Australia's participation in Viet Nam. Holt, 58, has committed Australian draftees to the war and Australian prestige to the containment of Asian Communism. Calwell, 70, demands an end to the draft, a pullback from Viet Nam and the votes of "600,000 Australian mothers whose boys could die or be wounded in the long, cruel, dirty...