Word: trots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seltzer's Fisk is immediately impressive, ultimately superb. He has been stuffed from neck to calf and uses his enormous bulk convincingly to great advantage. He sways dangerously back and forth when faced by his dissatisfied mistress, breaks into an anguished trot to keep up with his evermoving lunatic father in the magnificent asylum scene, paws the stage instinctively like a bull, and is forever grabbing objects with intent to break or mangle, only to realize frustratedly that he has no reason to break them. "Your hands, Jim. Always your hands," says Josie resisting his brusque advances; sensing the importance...
...past few months has it become possible for them to walk through the city like ordinary mortals. Ringo Starr explains the fine points of the art: "If you're not dodging and running, you don't get people excited. If you take it cool and just trot about, they leave...
...beginning of the year, when the terrorists first appeared, more than 40 persons have been killed in ambushes and raids; the army has declared a 1,300-sq,-mi. area in eastern Bolivia a "war zone." Holding Debray responsible, his military jailers last month went so far as to trot him be fore a press conference dressed in the striped uniform worn only by those who have already been convicted. Although local papers warn against prejudging Debray, the government is conducting a campaign to assure that the public remains convinced of his guilt. Throughout Bolivia, posters attack Debray...
...course of this brief trot into the world of Brecht, the Caravan Theater Company makes some well-meaning attempts to find an appropriate mood. The lines of the stage and of the portable sets are simple and clean. The actors present the material briskly and without complication. In the first part of the evening excerpts from various plays and poems are recited by members of the company. The bulk of the evening is devoted to a shortened version of Man is Man, the story of how a timid Indian is transformed into the terror of the British Colonial Army...
...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...