I saw the farce on stage in York, where outrageous Rik had the audience in stitches with his antics as a
priapic politician.
There was also the possible added allure of an explicitly
priapic satyr--and the fact that a comparable piece, now in the British Museum, belonged to Charles Townley's famous eighteenth-century collection and features in Zoffany's no less famous painting of his library.
Far from being an inchoate, illiterate, unsophisticate mass gulled by displays of
priapic power, midle-class women especially were acutely conscious of their rights and interests.
Rejected as a supporting band for legend Django (real-life Olympic frontman Petr Janda) because of faulty equipment, they decide to raise money to buy new gear by kidnapping the scrawny yet
priapic mongrel dog of local kingpin Boss Salinger (Vaclav Postranecky).
Suddenly, like a garish lump of
priapic lard (hmm, nice image), there was Barry White and a nation went rumpy pumpy crazy.
An Almodovar alumnus, the burly Bardem has softened his presence here; his Arenas is a gentle, far from
priapic figure.
Spain's top-rating series are determindly
priapic. Spain's top-rating series, "Aqui no hay quien viva"--in which a seventy something separated woman has a night of drunken passion with her butch young neighbor--averaged 6.3 million viewers during 2004-05 but only 5.6 million over 2005-06.
It was an optical illusion, of course, but under certain conditions
priapic boys could fool themselves into believing that they worked.
Both actresses gave us a fine picture of an irascible, infatuated artist immersed selfishly in a life where the
priapic urge was always, exhaustingly, uppermost.
2 The Gaiety This noble relic - strip bar, dance hall, tryst station,
priapic parlor, variety show - still features consistently better performances than anywhere on or off or off-off Broadway.
(Cue the expected "coming out of the closet" joke.) Even if you haven't previously come across Johnson's agreeably tousled, avuncular persona, Hudson makes an extremely winning occupant of the play's defining role, a self-described "
priapic kangaroo" who is heard to opine cheerfully, "If we don't save the planet, we'll have to move."
Much better are the nore experimental moments such as Dis-Coke (a bonkers shouty thing), Baby I'm a Technoboy, and the turly demented Respect the Cock which samples Tom Cruise's
priapic messiah in Magnolia.
AMERICA, the land of crack- addicted babies, increasing racial tension and
priapic politicians, never quite seems to get its priorities right.
His invention, based (as is evident in the show) on incredibly precise drawings, is remorseless: handles, spouts, and full-bellied jars are brought to play in
priapic transmogrification.
"Society must not be too harsh in its judgments." Fair enough, coming from a psychiatrist who by play's end will have embraced transvestitism, bisexuality and possibly necrophilia as Orton's farcical roundelay accelerates toward its explosively
priapic, uh, climax.
