Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that the rhinoceros horn begins all and the cauliflower ends all (TIME, Dec. 26) may be the profoundest truth of the cosmos...
...wild and woolly Western Australia, Australia's press-pothered Prime Minister Robert Menzies, 61, was asked by a newsman about rumors that he will soon resign. Snapped Politician Menzies: "I shall be certifiable [i.e., a candidate for a strait jacket] when I allow a few newspaper reporters to decide my future...
Something Wild, as Hal Scott says in his opening declamation, is about decadence. Scott and his HDC'ers stay well within this theme--no difficult feat with Tennessee Williams--yet accomplished acting makes these three short plays represent more than decadence: each becomes, with skillful handling, an escape into freedom...
Obviously, despite the prevailing decadence, Something Wild offers a great deal of variety, both in theme and in tone. The costumes and sets are simple; but their starkness is the key to their effect. The jazzy musical background is usually effective. With the exception of a little mechanical following of blocking, the production is generally excellent. Each escape is impressive: with most of the old stand-by HDC'ers doing the escaping and Hal Scott aiding and abetting them, this little bundle of abnormality is well worth a trot over to Agassiz...
...Tuxahatchie's first family. In defiance of the 13th Amendment, Book Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations of Northern folk...