Word: anguishes
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...central work, Eh Joe. Holding court over the Ariel Chamber Ensemble, Worth sits directly beneath a gigantic video screen on which we see projected the face of the play's central character, Joe. Joe is haunted by the voice of a girl who once left him and his anguish increase as he mentally reenacts past relationships with his mother and a discarded Ophelia-both of whom he destroyed through neglect. The camera repeatedly closes in on Joe's face as the girl's taunts become increasingly strident, "You know that penny farthing hell you call your mind...that's where...
Dubin's descent is painful to watch but thoroughly absorbing, for his struggle assumes heroic dimensions. He is smart enough to bear the responsibility for his anguish and strong enough to fight...
...idealistic conscience launched on the treacherous pragmatic seas of political action. His spirit travels in an arc of anguish from the moment he plunges his sword into the Roman tyrant to receive the heart-rending rebuke "Et tu, Brute?- Then fall Caesar!" to the moment he runs on the selfsame sword...
...series, which PBS's Masterpiece Theater began showing in 1974, finished its American run in the spring of 1977-to universal wailing and desperate cries of anguish from several million devoted fans. A Manhattan distributor, Group IV, picked up the rerun rights when the PBS deal ran out. Starting at various times this month and in the next several weeks, Upstairs, Downstairs will be shown on 46 commercial stations around the country...
...history. A girl's black bell-bottomed trousers "flare out as shadow would flare out/ If the source of light/ Were centered in her belly." The poet moves in his leather jacket, "a cow's hide stuffed with soul." In "War" he compresses the century's anguish to four barbed-wire lines...