Word: vat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make butts of everything, as wisecracks tumble out brightly ("The worst thing about jail is the other Irish patriots who are in along with you") or breezy and old ("Vat 69-that's the Pope's telephone number"), it's easy to make too little of The Hostage, to call it mere tongue-in-cheekiness, a jolly but self-indulgent romp. And as, amid shenanigans, there comes a sudden stab to the heart or a surface shot...