Word: snakepit
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...finest portion of the film is the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening makeup, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing are worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the outcome in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...
...finest portion of the film was the last. For this much of the credit goes to the marvelous chorus of avenging Furies, whose frightening make-up, snakepit writhings and almost surrealistic dancing were worthy even of Dante's Inferno. The play itself is a real suspense thriller, with the out-come in doubt. It builds up to the theatre's first trial by jury, a device that is still proving useful to dramatists 2500 years later...
...lithe, balding artist nosedives at a canvas spread on the studio floor. His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color. "All I try to do is let out the monsters inside me," he says, "the monsters we all are." Shades of Jackson Pollock? No, it is Belgian-born Artist Pierre Alechinsky speaking, and at 37 he is already a latter-day saint of action painting...
...graduates this year, Coach Floyd Wilson may be forced to modify his offense, compensating for the lack of height with a fast break and a pressing defense. In any case Williams, the team's leading rebounder, will be around for one more year, but he may escape from the snakepit out at the high post...
...were people like himself. "One of these days," he squalls at them cheerfully, "you guys are gonna drive me nuts! Har! Har! Har!" Oh, that Peck really breaks the boys up, but he puts them all together again with sodium pentothal and sympathy. One after another they go from snakepit to cockpit, secure in the knowledge that Freud is their copilot...