Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green sod...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green sod...
...heroic poem, a sort of cow-country Cid. Its pace is slow and noble. Its frames are often stark tableaux. Its characters are simplified and enlarged into figures for a legend. But the legend, like most synthetic folklore, fails to come alive. How could it when the sod hut looks like a page from HOUSE & HOME, when the back-country heroine has an elocution-school accent, when the cowpunching hero has clean, executive hands? Mankind needs new and vital legends, and Director Huston should not be blamed for trying to make one. Only for trying to fake...
...being a rustic Irish comedy, is a pack of lies; white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies, and every one as harmless as the tines of a well-sharpened hayfork. Adapted from George Shiels's play called The New Gossoon,* the film is lifted off the green sod by the main strength of its cast: the Abbey Theater players and their American guest, Actress Julie Harris...
...decontaminated. Their urine was checked to ensure that they had not inhaled or ingested any plutonium. The processing plant and a nearby research reactor were shut down. The buildings were washed with detergents. The buildings' roofs were resurfaced. The surrounding lawn was dug up, and the sod carted to a deep burial place. The surface was chiseled off of a hundred yards of asphalt road. To anchor any speck of plutonium that might have survived, the buildings were completely repainted...