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...your head is that once I'm there I'm on my own." Brose has been growing mushrooms in the boiler room, and near curtain's drop they sprout hallucinogenic caps. Brose munches on one and can see Mrs. Murray naked. She flees, trying desperately to shield herself with her personnel folder. "D'you like happy endings?" says Brose with a happy wink...
During his visit to Washington last month, Marcos articulated the ambivalence of many non-Communist ex-colonials who now stand on their own. "The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect," Marcos told a joint session of the U.S. Congress. "The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism...
Shockers abound. A butterfly is burned alive, and a Buddhist monk pantomimes immolation. An American G.I., in the form of an enormous skeletal death god, hangs in front of the proscenium with blackened doll babies in its eye sockets, a Superman shield on its chest, barbed-wire guts and a six-foot bomb in place of genitalia. An American colonel is satirized as being "anti-Communist, anti-queer, anti-drink, anti-cigarettes." At the end of the first act, the entire cast appears onstage wearing paper bags over their heads. Whimpering, they stumble over the footlights and into the auditorium...
...like Lenin lying in state. He is a solitary figure who thinks of himself still as "a guest in this country," and he keeps himself insulated from the rhythms that make other men move. He is Old World to the heart and carries his British citizenship like a shield. As far as Bing is concerned, he could be living in downtown London...
...Morse's acacia. On Labor Day weekend alone, some 1,500 passed through the chain-link fence. Scorning science, and showing that he knows a miracle when he sees one, Morse has been making plans to surround the tree with paving stones and to erect an awning to shield waiting patrons from the hot Texas sun. Meanwhile, he is waiting patiently for his bountiful acacia to cry again...