Word: weirdness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Myrna Lamb in her play is painfully, unrelentingly didactic, but one has to admit she uses a very original, if very weird, dramatic idea. She wants to show that pregnancy, especially the accidental kind, is terrible, and that men don't usually realize it. On stage is a woman doctor who has implanted an impregnated ?terus in her old lover, who got her pregnant and deserted her to pursue a legal career fighting abortion. The horrors of pregnancy are outlined as he protests against his condition ("I don't believe it. I can't believe this nightmare."), while the woman...
...announced that they had solved the five murders and three others as well. If they are correct, the alleged murderers were even stranger and more bizarre than their crimes. The police case was based on the tale of an accused murderer, Susan Denise Atkins, 21. She sketched out a weird story of a mystical, semi-religious hippie drug-and-murder cult led by a bearded, demonic Mahdi able to dispatch his zombie-like followers, mostly girls wearing hunting knives, to commit at least eight murders and, police say, possibly four others...
...Wells Opera. Another devoted fan is Walter Susskind of the St. Louis Symphony, who remembers Janáček from his student days in Prague. He compares Janáček's originality with that of America's Charles Ives. Like Ives, Janacek was a weird, lonely figure who owed little to his musical ancestors and had no true descendants. His method of composing was slapdash and, to would-be performers, sometimes unintelligible. Says Mackerras: "He never really knew his craft. He had an absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what...
This is particularly evident in the weird love relationships in the films. Marilyn Monroe falls in love with Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot -but this happens while Curtis is disguised as a woman. Ray Milland falls for Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor -only Miss Rogers happens to be disguised as a 12-year-old girl. William Holden feels love at first sight for Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina -but only because he thinks she's a cosmopolitan fashion plate rather than the chauffeur's daughter she really...
...girl (Blythe Danner) lives in the adjoining flat. They meet and bedmate, only to have the boy's Mom arrive unexpectedly, as Moms expectably do in plays like this. Mom (Eileen Heckart) inspects the setup like a staff officer suddenly assigned to a colonial outpost full of weird natives and primitive sanitary facilities...