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...memory. Actress Ruth White, though she plays her role with more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner. A bottomless black shopping bag provides the day's events. Finding a toothbrush, she brushes her teeth punctiliously. She swigs some pink pep medicine, kisses an evilly glinting revolver and dons a perkily feathered hat. "These things tide one over," she says. Her talkfest acquires a haunting reflective cadence as it flows between the vapid ("Keep yourself nice, Winnie, that's what...
...Oscar Wilde and the fin-de-siècle dandies) were anti-bourgeois snobs. They were too pure for the philistine middle class. The New Exquisites are anti-life snobs. Life is not pure enough for them. Several times in Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed and genuinely pure. Their plaint is that life is fraudulent, corrupt, conformist, lonely, sad and beastly. The Old Exquisites proclaimed art for art's sake. By finding life devoid...
Highest-ranking Soviet official ever to visit Japan, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan was all smiles under his toothbrush mustache. When he arrived at Tokyo's International Airport last week, he exuded the folksy, traveling-salesman style that he and his proverb-prattling boss Nikita Khrushchev have made famous. "You have a saying that goes, 'A good neighbor is better than a distant relative,' " he told his hosts. "We live right next door to each other, and our relations should be those of good neighbors." Some 3,000 Japanese leftists waved red flags in approval, while...
Billeted in Ottawa's Lord Elgin Hotel with a fellow Soviet delegate, Klotchko waited until his roommate was asleep, collected only his razor and toothbrush, and slipped out into the deserted streets. Klotchko quickly found himself talking to the Mounties. By 8:30 in the morning, Klotchko's appeal for political asylum was on Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's desk, and by 9:30 the Cabinet met to approve...
Precise to a Fault. Combing the boards' appraisals, Peberdy found a consistent pattern among the toothbrushed men: the boards in general ruled them to be "too limited in imagination, too little appreciative of the views of others, [liable to] create rather than disperse interpersonal tensions. Like their mustaches, so tended these men: faintly rebellious, energetic but prickly, precise to a fault, disciplining to near ruthlessness and disciplined to near self-mutilation." Good Soldier Peberdy reassuringly hastened to add that in the selection of officer candidates "the cut of a man's mustache could of course never...