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...less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne his child out of wedlock. More sensualist than wanton, she betrays him with a dashing drum major, and the crazed Woyzeck, like a conscript Othello, stabs his flyblown wench to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Birth of the Non-Hero | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...novice fan, rugby seems to be a wild melee where 30 barbarians madly pursue a weird-looking ball, as if it were a shapely wench, and they were just back from sacking a city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospects Bright for Rugby Club; Season Opens With Tour of Dixie | 3/29/1966 | See Source »

...empire. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 34, and Richard Burton, 40, are about to relive the tale in Elizabethan style. In Rome they will begin shooting The Taming of the Shrew, which will give Richard an opportunity to utter Petruchio's immortal line: "Why, there's a wench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...winsome wench of horn-rimmed glass then caught his roving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TEMPLE ON THE HILL | 1/4/1966 | See Source »

...this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving-wench (Joan Diener), whom he views as his dream virgin, Dulcinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quixote by Quixote | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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