Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things looked normal enough at the border railroad station of Lowu, where Hong Kong transships its imports to Communist China. Red-capped coolies unloaded copper wire from Europe, office supplies from the U.S., military truck tires from Japan, and natural rubber from Malaya. From the Chinese side of the border, past unsmiling Communist frontier guards, coolies carried the mainland food which the colony gets in return...
...Rose Tattoo is about Serafina Delle Rose, whose husband-a lusty man with a rose tattooed on his chest-is killed smuggling narcotics on a banana truck. After his death, Serafina wildly exalts him into a legend, lives devotedly with his ashes, cuts off all outside life. Then, slowly and agonizingly, she is forced to recognize that her husband was unfaithful to her. Through another banana-truck driver, "with my husband's body and the face of a clown," she is brought back to life, and set free to love...
Moreover, the play's tone, if affirmative at the end, is badly mixed before that. After building up a good deal of emotional intensity, Williams snaps the whole mood by turning Serafina's first meeting with the truck driver into low comedy...
...Rose Tattoo is effective theater. David Diamond's incidental music is pleasant, and Boris Aronson's set appealing. Maureen Stapleton gives Serafina a crude, harsh vitality. But too often the play itself is lush, garish, operatic, decadently primitive, a salt breeze in a swamp, a Banana Truck Named Desire...
Eager Beaver. The Army has long wanted a heavy truck that can splash ashore from landing barges and ford deep streams. Last week it had just the thing, and in quantity. Reo Motors Inc. delivered the last of 5,000 six-wheeled, 2½-ton trucks designed to start, stop and run under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber...