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...named Jack Kirkland stalked in and pasted Trib Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr. (now with the New York Post) for panning his latest creation. Bleeck rushed to the scene shouting "We don't allow overly intoxicated people here, and no fighting neither." With that, he beat a smart tattoo on Kirkland's skull with a blackjack he just happened to be carrying...
Daughter Kattrin is a war-victimized mute with a desperate love of children. In Brecht's mordant view, kindness is voiceless in the world. Kattrin performs the only noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping town of ambush. A single musket shot silences her. Zohra Lampert detonates this episode shatteringly after having made her Kattrin an intaglio of forlorn brooding poignance. As Anne Bancroft cradles her daughter in marble stillness, the scene has the desolating sadness of a Piet...
...exam that meant getting into college. When Ben and Gloria go to bed together, and then agree to meet weekly for more extracurricular love and French lessons, a double irony is consummated. Her special pride was her fidelity; his was being a self-taught genius. The Wallachs drum a tattoo of laughs on The Tiger's hide, and just as expertly drain the comic pathos from The Typists, a tale of two office-worker mediocrities whose lives dim out like light bulbs...
Winches rattled, halyards sang, and pelting rain beat a steady tattoo against the sails. For more than six miles, the two boats matched swell for swell, trough for trough, until it seemed that they were bound together by an invisible chain...
Today, as another army from the north -the Communist Viet Cong-threatens South Viet Nam, the South Vietnamese government is hopeful that history can be made to repeat itself. Requisitioning two livestock marking machines from the U.S., the South Vietnamese will tattoo on the chests of their sailors the phrase "Sat Cong" (Let's kill the Communists...