Word: varlets
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...already turning to the right page (Hymn 138 praise be!) as I scampered back to the entrance. But one of the oak doors blasted open. I sprang back to avoid a smash. Boy was I was ready to loose my tongue on that varlet. But, to my disappointment, it was only Ezekiel.Ezekiel is one robust man—a foot taller than Daddy and almost twenty years younger—but he sure moves slow. And by the time all his burliness had come through the doors, the song had hit its last chorus...
...that, alas, is all there is. Even good acting by Burstyn, Maher and the rest of the company cannot create a play where none exists. The dialogue is sometimes unbearably cloying. Hanff is given to saying things like "thou varlet," but except for the fact that she is single, Roose-Evans tells almost nothing about her, far less than he reveals about her friends in England. Does she have a love life? Not a word. Does she ever leave her apartment? Again, scarcely a syllable. Has she ever explored one of Manhattan's secondhand bookstores? Apparently not. There...
Agent Bond, in short, is just a great big hairy marshmallow, but he sure does titillate the popular taste. In the past ten years the ten novels in which he figures have sold more than 11 million copies in the U.S. and abroad. And now at last the varlet pimpernel can be seen on the screen. He looks pretty good. As portrayed by Scotland's Sean Connery, he moves with a tensile grace that excitingly suggests the violence that is bottled in Bond. But somehow the poor chap almost always manages to seem slightly silly-he can hardly help...
...twelve, put on a boffo production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in the Yeats translation. They had already staged Cocteau's Orphee at their 60-seat Philadelphia Theater for Children, an abandoned slum building. Equally adept at Shakespeare, the kids cheerily greeted each other with "What ho, varlet?" and "How now, spirit! Whither wander you?" The force behind all this is 23-year-old Christopher Speeth, the only white teacher at 76-year-old Arthur School. A lawyer's son, Speeth grew up in Cleveland with a bewildering variety of talents. He began studying the violin...
...Bruges-Detroit show starts with Jan van Eyck, who was court painter and varlet de chambre to Philip the Good, and did as much as any man to change the history of painting...