Word: snakepit
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...bland speech of welcome that pointed up his own concern for peace. Wearing his customary sunglasses, pitji (pillbox hat) and rows of ribbons, fun-loving President Sukarno-who, during the recent Belgrade conference of neutralists, had spent many of his off-duty hours cavorting in a nightclub called the Snakepit-answered that he hoped their talks would "bear fruit...
...finest portion of the film was 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 were 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...