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...this summer will be making her sixth contribution to the tourist-gap cause. She is a devotee of the drugstore, which to her is a most amusing American phenomenon. She thinks it is hilarious to eat a hamburger in a regular apotek and loves to listen to the vernacular exchanges between the cook and the waiters, which completely baffle her. When she is there, she stocks up on those special favorites of her Danish grandchildren: multicolored Band-Aids, Silly Putty and Hershey chocolate kisses. She even saves Green Stamps...
Despite its needlessly bloodthirsty climax-the machinist, like Wotan, gives up an eye to gain his triumph-The Angry Silence is a grimly impressive critique of the mass mind. Guy Green's direction is sure, direct, forceful. Bryan Forbes's script is swift, cogent, vernacular. But Hero Attenborough's performance is the best thing in the picture. He is so ordinary it hurts, but then his ordinariness is an essential part of his significance. Anybody, he seems to say, anybody at all can stand up on his hind legs and live his own life if only...
...obtain of the correctness of this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind. "I am informed by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that there are now no occasions on which the Salutation is officially played. The last occasion on which it was known to have been played at all was on a Gramophone at an evening reception...
...West End's mirror of English life, Joan Littlewood likes to fill her theater with the smell of cold porridge and soft coal. her stage with people of small means and great imagination. She likes her characters to rub hips with spivs, tarts, pansies and drunks, in whose vernacular a whore is a brass and a pimp is a ponce (one song in Fings Ain't What They Used to Be is called The Student Ponce). But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams of crippled psyches, and a John Osborne casts about...
Master of stylized vernacular and the dropped g, he was also a minor poet, attaching long insights to short, simple words...