Word: womanlessness
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...unskilled half of the crew, most of whom are Louisiana Cajuns and Mississippi farmers, life on the impregnable, womanless island becomes a monotonous cycle of dirt, grease, curses and the knowledge that tomorrow will be more of the same. The men, known as roustabouts, work and sleep 14 days at a time on the platform before they get a week's rest on shore. They are tired of this life. Many would like to quit. But they cannot. They find themselves trapped by the realization that however torturous the job is, the money is good, better than they could...
...reaction at womanless Princeton may be less exuberant. But Rudenstine will probably get used...
...HOMECOMING. When the eldest son brings his wife to the womanless house of his family, the situation is set for a clash-between his youth and his father's age, his intellectualism and his father's brute force, the claims of his children on his wife and the claims of his brothers. Peter Hall directs members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in a tightly orchestrated performance...
...university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger...
...there they are. Grown men playing in the world's biggest sandbox and wondering how on God's green earth they got there. They bicker, they drink, they gamble, they bicker. By day the sun, by night frustration fries them. As the womanless weeks go by, they turn into wild-eyed wolves who would tear each other to pieces for a fresh young chicken...