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...spend the two hours is trying to figure out metaphors. No one from paradise is allowed to "go over to the other side" where the "bogeyman" lives. Should the bogeyman cross into civilization, Mr. Atkinson promises to "spear him" in the head, the guts, and other areas. Man name of John Foster Dulles wrote much the same script in his day, but lacked the underwater photography necessary to produce this thriller...
Everyone will now be mobilized, and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and cook. Those without wives will take any woman without a husband. Anyone found at home after the receipt of this order will be hanged...
...homemade crucifixes. In a church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...
P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest is yet a sharper spear in the chest of dramatic opera than Bugs Bunny. To compliment or condemn the acting or the singing in this "opera" is to insult Peter Schickele's frivolous intention...
With a couple of trombone blasts, an amazon of a woman, sporting gold sequins, helmet and spear, rambles onto the stage to tell us she got lost in this forest running away from a clumsy abductor who dropped her from her balcony. This lady of the lowlands. Donna Ribalda (Melody Scheiner) feigns gusto in her aria, but soon gives in to boredom...