Word: townsfolk
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...when the viewer is convinced that Nash, the director, does his best to turn the play into an abominable cliche. For example, there is one particular scene where the transvestite (Ethan Golden) tries very hard to stimulate a banana with his mouth, and a gratuitous dream sequence where the townsfolk caper under a rain of purple light, performing choreographed imitations of everything from group sex to oral...
Donkeys laden with firewood shambled about aimlessly among the crowd in the shabby central square in Mamuras, 19 mi. north of the Albanian capital of Tirana. The townsfolk's timeless talk about rain, marriages and hardship had given way to the excitement of an epochal event: the country's first free elections. "We want the same things as the rest of Europe -- freedom to go where we like, to work hard and to secure our future," said Shaban Sula, 37, who works on a nearby collective farm. But in Mamuras, where Europe seems like a distant continent, his words betrayed...
Although angry townsfolk demanded immediate action, the army's mandate is simply to keep the peace should Gold consider it necessary...
...townsfolk are suspicious. They want to know just who this Desperado...
...fazed by the protests. When Governor Roy Romer asked the town to cancel the festive slaughter, Mayor John Vanderpool replied, "Buzz off." And when 40 or so humane activists showed up in Nucla to yell at the gunslingers ("It takes a big man to kill a little prairie dog!"), townsfolk had a ready retort: "Eat some lettuce!" After Nucla counted the money visitors had pumped into the town ($75,000), it was decided to plan an even bigger shoot next year...