Word: whoreson
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...John Falstaff, fat rogue, globe of sinful continents, candle-mine, sweet beef, whoreson round man, is not a character who requires fleshing-out. Prince Hal's drinking chum can hardly be made rounder or thirstier. Nor does he present a puzzle: his belly is his biography. Nevertheless, Robert Nye, a British poet who lives in Scotland, has had the colossal cheek to come forward with this swollen, rumbustical bladder of a book, supposedly Falstaffs bragging last confessions...
Pertinax Surly (John Carito) sees through the alchemist but doesn't manage to outsmart him. Carito is particularly good when dressed up as a Spanish hidalgo pretending not to understand Subtle when he tells him, "You are a scurvy whoreson dog," to which he replied. "Gracias, gracias." Tribulation (Walter Matherly) and Ananias (Sam Guckenheimer) are two whacked-out sectaries from the most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns...
...rabble. Wyman Pendleton imbues the aging counselor Escalus with warmth. And Alvah Stanley, with axe, rope and chains, is properly intimidating as the executioner Abhorson--a unique name that Shakespeare fashioned, in the manner of the pivot-word so common in Japanese poetry, by fusing 'abhor' and 'whoreson...
Chambers is sometimes cheerfully diverting. He discourses on mushrooms. He jocularly informs Buckley that his son John is a "great eater of your whoreson flapjacks." He passes along crazy, bullish stock market tips-some of which turn out to be crazy like a fox. Reformed revolutionaries, Chambers observes wryly, when they can learn to stifle their scruples, often do well in finance. He is a notable coiner of cranky but sharp-eyed political epigrams: "The illusion of Yalta [1945]: that the Communists yearned for peace if only we'd be kind to them. The illusion of Geneva [1955]: that...
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