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...sinful error" can be read a whole history of religious persecution). Sometimes he errs; the grisly U.S. neologism "finalize" means to confirm a tentative decision-not to finish. But the book is delightful, and to say more of its faults would be to make mountains of oontitoompses (Gloucestershire rural slang for molehills...
...Great balls of betel nut," roars Ives as he looks deep into the drawing-room eyes of the new arrival, "they've sent me a totok" which is Dutch slang for greenhorn. Straightaway, Ives saves scene after scene of the picture by stealing it. Guzzling what he calls P.G. (pure gin) from a half-gallon tin, charging and trumpeting like a white war elephant in a Panama suit, Ives produces his gutsiest acting triumph since Big Daddy...
...Broadway original, the film version of Jack Gelber's junkie play, The Connection, goes for verisimilitude down to the last four-letter word. One word, a four-letter dysphemism for human excrement, occurs repeatedly, since in the context of Gelber's story it is slang for "snow" -which is a euphemism for any narcotic...
...plot was hard enough to take: a woman enters a convent to cleanse herself of sensuality, only to end up begging a young officer to rape her. But Audiberti's attention-demanding pace, his mixing of dialect and modern slang with classical French, his erotic, violent language, his loving description of urination-all were too much. "Scandal!" the audience roared...
There are times when Cole's humor (which largely consists in ingenious shifts from classical speech to slang to officialese) becomes a little wearing. Portions of his play are difficult to follow, and some of the scenes where Midas is allowed to philosophize and act the tragic hero actually become serious. Fortunately Midas (George Larson) is a fine comic actor, and for the most he plays his role with a bogus sincerity that is just right...