Word: spits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...socially unacceptable, mockery of lawyers remains a safe prejudice. Sample: What do lawyers and sperm have in common? Both have a one-in-a-million chance of turning out human. Another: Why did the post office recall its lawyer stamp? Answer: Because people didn't know which side to spit...
Scenes that are cleverly blocked out should work but don't. Here's the Declaration, John Adams' signature blurry from Saddam's spit, nailed to the wall at Baath headquarters in Baghdad. We see the hero, a lecturer in constitutional law from Yale, creeping in to switch the real document for a copy. Then the heroine, a beautiful Israeli spy who doesn't realize the switch has already been made, puts the original back in place and grabs the copy. Suddenly . . . but there's no tension, no believability, no sense that Baghdad's streets sound or feel or smell different...
Rumble they bellyful' Spit, fire! Spout, rain...
Suddenly, sniper bullets spit into the dirt along the top of the trench. Down below the ridge, plum orchards in spring bloom conceal the Muslim lines. Exploding artillery shells trigger small avalanches along the rain-loosened earth walls. A young Serb slides into the trench, out of breath from his dash across a meadow of buttercups pocked by mortar craters. He has a question to ask that is important enough to risk his life. "Why does the world want to destroy us?" he wants to know. "We are victims...
...accessible to the audience, Benjamin includes many episodes of welltimed, appropriate slapstick that bring the audience to laughter in the midst of this grim play. When the main characters begin their picnic, Frank eats barbarically while Ernest carefully slices his hot dog; as time goes on, Ernest begins to spit out hot dog chunks just as disgustingly as Frank. Ernest's long hair gradually falls out of his ponytail throughout the play, and Frank only puts his long hair into a ponytail when he becomes Ernest at the end. Despite the conversational, place-bound constraints of the script, Benjamin...