Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moss cut his hair to avoid a hippy image, and scrapped the original name of "Air Liberation" which he thought would sound too political. "Freelandia" was adopted, inspired by the mythical land of Fredonia in the Marx Brothers' movie "Duck Soup...
...dollar, but in Bolivia one needn't ever pay over 15 pesos for a full-course meal. I chose the cheapest item on the list, a perro caliente (Spanish for "hot dog"), which went for seven pesos. Up in the Indian Quarter seven pesos would have bought me soup, a piece of chicken, rice, and chuna, a type of dried potato. In a few minutes the waitress, dressed in a tight yellow uniform, placed a five-inch long, grease-bathed hot dog in front of me. I didn't even get a roll...
...first half of the play is practically a single speech an hour long. Teresa, very well played by Amy Moss, pours out the story of her life, sloppily, like soup overflowing a saucer--her nightmares, unhappy childhood, financial problems, and unrequited love for her husband. "Is all this boring you?" she asks Elena (Anne Singer)--a risky suggestion for an author to make to an audience when presenting this kind of familiar material. But Ginzburg carries it off, and instead of sounding like your roommate's version of hell at Harvard, the first act is hypnotic and convincing...
...before it's banned," explained one proper Bostonian. Many people say that they go simply because everyone warned them not to; others are fascinated by the special effects, like the bedroom scene with the flying furniture, or are curious to see the girl vomiting pea soup or mutilating herself with a crucifix. Still other viewers yearn to be scared. "To be strictly honest, I'm morbid," admitted one college student. "It's a cult; you have to see this movie," said another. "It's the beat 'em and bleed 'em creeping-crawlies cult," grinned...
...dinner she had cooked a Warsaw soup of potatoes and brown flour, and as she put the plate down in front of me I saw the blue concentration-camp number on her wrist. She noticed my looking at it and said, 'If you die, you die, but if you live you have to go through the whole comedy. There are too many magazines already. If Moses himself descended from Heaven today, he'd just be laughed...