Word: absentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures, as mere vehicles for statements. To a large extent, however, the fault lies with the uneven acting. George Hamlin, as Galileo, has a powerful, expressive voice, but he seems to have trouble remembering his lines. Some of his slips and stammers fit in with the image of an absent-minded, introverted scientist, but too many of them are obvious mistakes. His daughter Virginia, who should earn our sympathy when we see her father callously neglecting her interests, puts us off with her annoying, uniform breathiness. William Schwalbe has some appeal as the eleven-year-old Andrea Sarti...
Between 1750 and 1850, the population of Europe doubled. The population might have increased by considerably more had certain checks on its growth been absent. Of course the major checks were a variety of natural human phenomena: famine, disease and war. And when Malthus warned that population growth would proceed at a much greater pace than the means of subsistence, he cited these as the otherwise absent limiting forces...
...local schools cancel classes on the Thursday and Friday of the Masters. On Wednesday, the day of the par-three tournament, one area school reported over 600 of its 1300 students absent. Unlike regular tournament play--for which tickets must be purchased in advance--the practice rounds were open to the general public at the cost of $5 a ticket. The school secretary said "Practically all of them [the absentees] are at the Masters. Even the principal is out at the par-three today...
...Michelangelo's figura serpentinata; the strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed Art Historian André Chastel, "always tends to develop a universe from which nature is absent"-and Mannerism was the courtliest and most artificial of styles. At Fontainebleau, the world of nature and the spontaneous passions was sublimated-in art as, one presumes, in life-into an elaborate system of symbols...
...wife of a gentile doctor early in the Third Reich. Preparing to leave the country (to make things easier for her husband), she incessantly purses her lips and tenses her fingers through a series of phone calls to friends, then shouts her way through an imagined dialogue with the absent husband. A friend of mine who spent several weeks of a drama workshop on this Brecht play tells me that this difficult role ought to be played down, and I think he's right. But Singer just keeps pouring it on, repeating the same nervous pauses and tense jerkings until...