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...become a brutal lord among primitive East Indies tribesmen. D.H. Lawrence's characters trek to all parts of the globe in search of a primeval energy lacking in Edwardian drawing rooms. Malcolm Lowry's consul seeks to escape from the gentility of Georgian society by drinking himself into a stupor under the volcanoes of Mexico...
...from Paris. Everyone is sleeping in the half-lit cabin. Except Emmanuelle and craggy faced man sitting across the aisle. She gets up and gets a blanket. He looks over a few times She looks back. He can't believe it. His face is such a mask of dumb stupor that when he finally heaves out of his seat to cross the aisle it's too much, the audience began giggling at this point and didn't stop. The couple's writhing and gasping is intercut with shots of another man with a craggy face sitting behind them, who keeps...
...contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim the surface off life itself; when one person catalogues life's vicissitudes, he jolts many others out of an unwitting stupor. Nin laments our cultivated numbness in the latest volume of her diary with an observation that parallels Miller's complaint in Cancer...
...LITTLE LEARNING is a dangerous thing," moralizes one of the characters in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, out of the depths of a drunken stupor. And the play could, if necessary, be reduced to that epigram and a couple of others, equally trite but true. But Kanin does such a good job of sugar-coating his didacticism that it usually remains palatable, even enjoyable. His "gems of wisdom" come in the rough, as drunken wisecracks or cute malapropisms ("This country belongs to the people who inhibit it,") and it is only in the final scene that the play seems...
Saundra Graham in her first term has shaken the city council from its normal stupor. Her impatient attitude toward bureaucratic red tape and her stubborn refusal to be satisfied with the status quo make her a very valuable councillor...