Word: soured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIDE WORE BLACK. Revenge is sweet, bitter, salty and sour in François Truffaut's poetic evocation of an idée fixe. Jeanne Moreau is the woman with the idée, and the men who killed her husband are the ones who get fixed in a series of alternately comic and eerie murders...
John Osborne, who initiated the modern English theatrical renaissance with Look Back in Anger, threatens to end it. His two new plays, Time Present and The Hotel in Amsterdam, are sad, sour, personal-and curiously oblique and lethargic. Osborne has never been much of a plot shaper, relying instead on arias of invective and hysteria. He is as much at the mercy of his voice as an operatic diva. This time his voice is overheard rather than heard. Instead of hurling anathemas, he bitches cattily. Instead of scalding, he scolds...
Edsel Margin III and Karl Shapiro agree with millions of other solidifying citizens that America is in the sticky clutches of its children. It makes these two men angry; it makes them nervous; it gives them sour stomachs...
...plus skits written by the members of the company, from which about 20 are drawn for each performance. Comedy is hard to write and harder to play--anyone who has tried either knows how often jokes end up poking too hard or at a subject too sensitive, only to sour into boredom or embarrassment. And everyone who ever blew a joke realizes the demands comedy makes for exactly the right gesture, the right voice, the right mood and the right timing. But except for a few TW3-type series of shorts aimed at tired topics like...
...likely to consist of Black's saying blackly that "America as it now exists must be destroyed," and White's answering, "Yes, but what do you really mean?" Kill Whitey? Or (smiling whitely) merely destruction of the social order? And what then? Black points out with sour pleasure that his "revolution" has 22 million members and that there are few recruiting or dropout problems. White says yes, but so long as blackness and separatism are requirements, the membership can do no more than cause disruption, because it can never grow large enough to complete a revolution...