Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...execution of Equus there are no ambiguities. Together with Director John Dexter and Set Designer John Napier, Shaffer has fashioned a spectacle dominated by horses: actors who bear on their heads equine masks and on their feet wear 6-in.-high hoofs that thud with the menace of a jungle drum. Shaffer has been fascinated by mask drama ever since he wrote The Royal Hunt of the Sun, about the conquistador Pizarro in Peru. At his suggestion, Inca funeral masks were worn by the Indians in the last act. "Nobody could think how they should look during Pizarro...
...small, important events. Preparing to make love, a woman in one of the stories "breathed deeply becuase of having been alone for a year or two. She put her two hands over her ribs to hold her heart in place and also out of modesty to quiet its immodest thud...
Black spirals of smoke dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
...began almost playfully, as when the mob swarmed over Japanese-made automobiles and deflated their tires. But then the cars were set aflame. A special target was the Astra Toyota agency, where the entire stock of new cars went up in flames, their fuel tanks exploding with an occasional thud...
...High School are similar to those that portended the rapid appearance of "For Rent" and "Sold" signs in cities across the nation during the last fifty years. They predict the beginning of a scenario familiar to urban sociologists; they hit the homes in Flatbush last week with a startling thud...