Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against fascism. If it were not for his sister-and-colleague (the beautiful Tamara) deflating his ego and making him look constantly ridiculous (women in Ambler are often girl Fridays who see through the melodramatic illusions of men), Zaleshoff might be a bit much. But he is the wonderful stuff of a racidal's fantasy nonetheless. He reappears in Cause For Alarm (1939). He cons a British engineer Marlow, (our hero) in Milan to do some unwitting work for him, and soon they are fleeing Mussolini's police across the countryside of northern Italy. While hiding is a railroad depot...
Southern politics is tough stuff. The only surprises come from men who turn out to be less evil than you expected. Down in Florida, where even now in the fading calendar days of winter it is so hot it will turn your mind to mush, political reporters are tramping through the condos, seaquariums, alligator farms, flamingo parks, houseboat harbors, trailer parks and drive-in churches looking for clues to George's appeal in the South. Who understands it best...
...doing in Untitled (Parrot Habitat), 1956-57, sitting there in a box lined with mirrors and scraps of print; we have no idea what the white ball and the metal hoops mean to it. But it could not matter less, for these precise, mild, irrational encounters remain the stuff of poetry...
There are other traditions in HPT shows too, aside from the singing, music, and dancing--incessant one-liners, salacious humor, satires of manners, silly word-play meant to elicit groans and hisses from the audience--traditions that tend to balance off the offensive stuff. And because director Judith Haskell has worked with writer Mark O'Donnell to excise some of the more offensive sexist jokes, because bits and pieces of the inoffensive material work quite well, and mostly because the music is excellent and some of the dancing is neatly executed, I suppose you should consider going to see Tots...
...everyone who should be here, is here, smahshing, absolutely dahshing, spectacle, the 'Asty's opening night. Champagne glasses litter every ledge; empty bottles cover the pool table (draped with a white cloth for the occasion). Everyone waves the bubbly with reckless dash over the floor or other people. The stuff flows freely; those present have paid $12.50 apiece for this status, but there is no cash in sight. All the green paper-work has been taken care of beforehand, cleaned out of the way, so no one will have to think about it this evening...