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...dental surgery ...He had a silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found were strings and wires...
...film, rather than abused as in Last Tango in Paris. Verbal images of life and death in Partner are almost as ridiculous as in Last Tango. Any suggestions that Marlon Brando alone was responsible for writing his speech about going "through the ass of death, right up into the womb of fear" are dispelled by Partner, where Clementi speaks of life as an "echo resounding between the sperm and the shit of the world...
...Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument is Britain's National Health Service, still the model of womb-to-tomb medical care...
...times, Fromm's premises seem as sweeping as those Utopian prescriptions. His picture of the peace-loving primitive man is unconvincing ("Wars among primitive hunters are characteristically unbloody"). His explanation for the rise of patriarchal rule during the urban revolution seems equally shaky ("No longer the womb, but the mind became the creative power, and with this, not women, but men dominated society...
...beginning: "'What's so important about that?' you might ask...well, at least it gives you something to think about," Littlechap declares at the end; after which he, too, retreats into his state of circular existence, gently subsiding into the fetal position and womb whence he came. Perhaps this is all a bit contrived or pretentious, but one must take Newley thought schemes with a grain of salt. And here, in an honest and unassuming production, one can accept the show for what it is. In any case, this rather bizarre setting is compatible with the array of familiar tunes...