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...implications of ecology. The play tells two mortality tales-the first mourning the death of a once-upon-a-time lovely river (killed by a polluting Union Carbide plat) and the second extolling praise upon the Good Samaritan who saves a weary, fellow traveler from the certain doom of thirst, resulting from the impurification of the river's water...
...time he has been married to a homosexual ship captain, shared a woman with his constantly re-appearing rival Ascyltus, then seen Ascyltus go at a writhing nymphomaniac who is tied spread-eagled in a wagon, and, finally, helped kidnap an albino hermaphrodite (who dies, of thirst)-something's got to give physically as well...
...Early stages of use are characterized by abrupt changes of mood and behavior, such as loss of interest in school, dates, sports and other activities, truancy, carelessness about personal appearance. Also by unusual seclusiveness, frequent talking or reading about drugs, loss of appetite, increased thirst, constipation. While "high," a user may act drowsy or intoxicated or show a lack of concern for pain. The pupils of his eyes may contract to pinpoints...
That is the beginning of a new movie called The Ballad of Cable Hogue and, truth to tell, there is not much more of a plot after that. Cable (Jason Robards) stubbornly battles thirst and wins, discovering a water hole in the desert. He stakes a claim, swears revenge on his two partners (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones) and meets a tasty tart named Hildy (Stella Stevens), who winds up keeping house at his combination water hole and stagecoach stop. He falls in with an itinerant preacher and whoremonger who calls himself the Rev. Joshua Duncan Sloane (David Warner...
...trombone in anguish. A lavish campaign contributor, he storms that Washington doesn't even know where his post is. That is the play's problem as well, but the laughs are located at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, and in a dry season they are thirst quenchers...