Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hire (69¢). Under Nasser's socialism, the fellah no longer has to make obeisance to the local pasha; instead, he is cheated by the corrupt administrator appointed by Cairo. Nasser's revolution, which began with bright hopes, is dismissed, like everything else in Egypt, with "ma-'alesh," a verbal shrug meaning roughly that nothing can be done about...
...high-low comedy, presented with affection and delight. When he took these people among whites who even then self-consciously affected Spade guests, the satire said everything that could be said about white liberalism. And because Maclnnes abandoned his tape recorder, relying on his ear for syncopation and dislocated verbal wit, the language, no matter how angry, is lilting and indelible...
...station. I heard later that even Presidents use it. That was okay, though, because it was still the coveted property of all us men. Men have used "fuck" at least since Elizabethan times, passing it from mouth to mouth through the generations as the last word in verbal virility. So what if a woman or prude challenged one's masculinity? A man could always take refuge in "fuck...
...department for TIME? It should be headed "Put Ons" and should include such verbal extravaganzas as the recent review of the works of Helen Frankenthaler and the review of the work of Kenneth Noland. If you do not care to change your format, could you at least tell us in which cheek your reviewer tucks his tongue when he pens his paeans...
Where the play demands direction which will point and illustrate the exceptional verbal wit of the text, Mr. McBain has chosen to give his players few props and less stage business: seldom have I seen so many actors standing meditatively with arms folded. When they are given business, it is as likely as not to distract substantially from the words of other characters then speaking. On occasion, the stage groupings extended across so broad a space that I was forced to choose between watching the speaker and following another character's elaborate pantomime of reaction. Where the pay requires both...