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...next room, and its huge foot finally pops open the interconnecting door. Later, it becomes a balloon and floats away. A prancing prostitute wears a pony tail where a pony does, making her the first whorse in theatrical history. She is a relatively soothing vision compared with the whore seen through a keyhole who discards her clothes and then removes her cheeks, her eyes, and the rest of her body down to the skeleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anatomy of the Absurd | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Like all O'Neill's estranged brothers, Brown and Dion find two common parents. One is our father who art in heaven and the other is Cybel (Dora Landey), the prostitute, who loves Dion and is kept by Brown. Actually, she's less of a whore than an undergraduate impression of one: she's sage, a salty philosopher, Mother Earth and Elaine May all in one. And she likes Dion to kiss her goodbye...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: The Great God Brown | 11/11/1961 | See Source »

...That is really a sight to see when such a bourgeois patriot begins to become incandescent and one knows it is all merely playacting. Pretending nationalist passions is as appropriate to our passionless lazy burghers as an old whore miming love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: The Great Dictator | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

Hiss's flat denial that he had ever known Chambers began the long series of dramatic hearings and trials that could hardly have been better cast by Hollywood. Chambers, the emotional brooder, who claimed among his friends a New Orleans whore named One-Eyed Annie, v. Hiss, the cool, well-bred Harvard Law School graduate who had been secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. In the famed "confrontation scene" in Room 1400 of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, Hiss peered at Chambers' teeth as though examining a horse, listened to his accuser's low-pitched voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Death of the Witness | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure blood must practice incest. Among his family are a son who loathes his wife and lives openly with a slave girl, and a lewd, liquored-up daughter-in-law (Brooke Hayward) who, from having been her "brother's whore," becomes a Mandingo youth's relentless seducer. Among the play's activities are brutal floggings, slaves who maul and kill one another while their masters bet on them, the daughter-in-law's horsewhipping her pregnant rival to death, and the planter's murdering first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays on Broadway | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

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