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...drama to so many things she knows to be not true. Her tactic for showing aversion to the Viet Nam war is not to question the logic of that war but to imply that Johnson, like Macbeth, has "supped full with horrors" and is an unfeeling, bloody-minded monster. Unwilling to concede the humanity of others, she reduces her characters to caricatures. They eventually take their revenge by draining MacBird of most of its fun and all of its life...
...good audience is an entity, a rather mutton-headed mass which is readily swayed, will laugh--and cry--easily. A good performance transforms a thousand individuals into one monster: the audience," Guthrie said...
Terrell threw barely a clean punch all evening. With his gloves and arms stationed in front of his face in the boxing version of a prevent defense, the 6'6" monster walked doggedly at Clay, cornering him against the ropes time and again. Then once he had the champ tied up, he started swinging furiously with his right, showering blows alternately on Ali's kidney and nape. Variations on the attack included a headlock before he started the pounding and a straight-on butt where he would plant his lowered head in Ali's midsection and drive at a turnbuckle...
...social observer. His girls are garbed in the hip gear of today's pelvic underground: miniskirts, black leather vests and striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
...Gases. Back with père et maman in Paris, young Ferdinand's grotesque adventures continue in mad spate. Father is a clerk, a monster of suspicion and self-pity; Mother deals in junk, which she tries to sell as antiques. They are failures, and Ferdinand thrashes them frightfully for it. He throws himself on the mercies of an uncle, who is a friend of Courtial Des Pereires, a prince of crackpots...