Word: stuporously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glomus, Latin for a skein, because it is a tangle of nerve fibers and small blood vessels-plus caroticum, derived from the Greek for stupefy, because pressure on the neck arteries will produce stupor...
...user and abuser of language. Like Thomas, the author of Under the Volcano erupted in lava flows of talk and lapsed into broody silences. Like Thomas, Lowry was a compulsively heavy drinker. At 47, he died an alcoholic's dreadful death: lying on his back in a drunken stupor, he began to vomit and choked to death. Finally, like Thomas, he spawned the kind of cult that makes a writer seem worth more dead than alive...
...Scriptwriters Jeffrey Dell and Roy Boulting is as complicated as Trevelyan's History of England, but no matter. The fun is watching Actor Terry-Thomas come into his own, as Co-Star Sellers did in The Mouse That Roared. No comedian can rise to a challenge with greater stupor, or be more benumbingly British. Near the film's end, a Britisher bound for Gaillardia inquires whether the island offers anything to shoot. Answers Terry-Thomas, pukka as Lord Clive: ''Only the natives...
...smash all barriers between the play and its audience. Two characters in The Connection are moviemakers doing an avant-garde film of the supposedly real junkies in their pad, and another is the "author," who loses control of his characters, gets a fix himself and falls in drugged stupor while the actors continue on their own. One actor gestures toward a couple in the audience, says that there are other addicts, "people who worry so much-aspirin addicts, chlorophyll addicts-hooked worse than me." From the audience, a voice murmurs over and over: "That...