Word: walpurgisnacht
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that show, who deliver soliloquies as to why they ran away to Broadway to dance, the bruised youngsters in Runaways sing songs of woe about fleeing ugly homes for streets and scenes sometimes even darker. What Elizabeth Swados, 27, here portrays in a dramatically erratic way is an urban Walpurgisnacht of the young. Through her cast, some of whom were actual runaways, she captures the abusive home life that gives these children a rage to escape, and the confusion, dread and loneliness that ensue. One song tells of a hitchhiker who stood on a highway holding a sign saying ANYWHERE...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? An admirable revival, with Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara, verifies that after 14 years this marital Walpurgisnacht has become part of the permanent canon of U.S. drama...
...stone, and an absent-minded magician performs a couple of genuine miracles, transforming wine into water and raising a man from the dead. The show under the big top is even more spectacular. It offers a unicorn that pops balloons with its horn, a sphinx that asks riddles, a Walpurgisnacht revel attended by witches and presided over by Satan himself and, for the jaded, the sacrifice of a beautiful virgin...
...familiar genre of this novel: Every Nacht is Walpurgisnacht in the East Sixties. Its equally familiar subgenre is Highly Intelligent Young Upper Middle-Class Married Woman With a Screw Loose Wobbles About Manhattan In State of Distraction, Nervously Hailing Taxicabs. If that seems to cut subgenres rather fine, novels exactly fitting the description have been appearing every six weeks or so for several years now. In fact, the Nervously Hailing Taxicabs category is as easily recognizable as that now defunct tribe of novel, popular in the '50s, in which young men in gray flannel suits brooded about whether...
...outlandish monument to nonchalance in the face of a fuel shortage and economic repercussions that will hurt Japan far more than the U.S., and even more than Western Europe. But behind its hectic face, there is a clearly sensed feeling of desperation, the atmosphere of a Japanese Walpurgisnacht...