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Alexander Woollcott, critic, lecturer, radio raconteur, died in 1943 but he has never passed away. The reason is that his friends Kaufman and Hart renamed him Sheridan Whiteside and painted an indelible portrait of him in his primary colors-venom, egocentricity and gush. Ever since this farce-comedy opened in 1939, it has induced fits of manic laughter...
THERE WERE WALLS, invisible walls, everywhere. He was a man. A maaaaan, standing with other real men, like him, between an army of picketers who chided him, mocked him, and a movie which tickled his most secret dreams. Their chants were full of spirit and venom, like so many football fans who had once cheered him. But much different...these people hated him, and he hated them, his eyes wandering nervously about in their sockets, half hate, half humiliation, so he drank more beer, and laughed at them. The beer made it easy...
...substance, known as slow reacting substance (SRS) of anaphylaxis, is a potent muscle-contractant. When foreign substances, such as insect venom, enter the body, antibodies trigger the release...
...century B.C. and by Genghis Khan in the 13th century A.D., Afghanistan in the Victorian era served as a buffer between Imperial Russia and the British raj. The Afghans accepted it all, but they exacted a bloody price. For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan...
Larry Fuller's choreography neatly underscores Eva's isolated eminence. A group of calcified aristocrats in full evening dress shuffles across the stage spewing venom at the people's "saint." In counterpoint, an army platoon in full re galia does an absurdist parody of close-order drill while scurrilously sneering at "Perón's latest flame...