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Morning. Sunshine. Palm trees. "We're alive!" Unfortunately, so is the giant crab, 18 ft. from claw to claw, that comes scuttling down the beach. After a fearful battle, the monster plops into a boiling hot spring. The castaways breakfast heartily on boiled crab, then sight a small boat drifting ashore. What luck! The boat just happens to contain what every cinema castaway most urgently requires: women...
...While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into a guitar, a bicycle wheel, a pre-Columbian monster. The handwriting has replaced style. It has devoured the ball...
...twisters dwarfs the circulation lists of even the largest magazine. In a speech before magazine promotion men at New York's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Manhattan Adman Fairfax M. Cone (Foote. Cone & Belding) had some blunt words for magazines tempted to play the numbers game against the one-eyed monster of the marketplace. Cone's advice...
...sifting Esslin's text, three significant plays emerge as historic steps in the development of absurd theater. The first was Ubu Roi, performed in Paris in 1896, and written by Alfred Jarry, a 23-year-old bourgeois baiter. Ubu is a pear-shaped buffoon-monster and a travesty on middle class values, e.g., thrift, family life, patriotism. He punctuates every third line of dialogue with an excremental word. Ubu Roi furnished the absurdists with their basic attitude: shock the bourgeoisie and slam the Establishment. In a 1923 play, In the Jungle of the Cities, Bertolt Brecht furnished the theater...
...their sense of civic virtue. Their language is filled with the old words of Christian righteousness ("spoliations," "disorderly house," "men of evil"), but in every case their targets were more formidable than their words. Ida Tarbell made Standard Oil "her province, referring to it here and there as "the Monster." Phillips, the wildest of them all, took out after the Senate, calling its leaders that "group of traitors in the service of the thieves...