Word: anguishingly
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...drifts through a colloid of far-out characters that are his (and his plot's) only visible means of support. His mate is a dim, dumb, sensible girl, who pulls up his socks from time to time and does her best to dry his tears of existential anguish...
...Anguish & Bathos. The first rounds are awarded almost entirely to Kennedy: the murderous primary rumbles in Wisconsin and West Virginia that finally killed off Hubert Humphrey; the impact of the glamorous and numerous Kennedy family on a startled nation; the surge of Stevenson's forces and the taut control in the Kennedy camp at the Los Angeles convention. Then it is the Republicans' turn, and Dick Nixon steps onto the resin. There is the anguish of the Vice President, halted at the very beginning of his campaign, in the midst of his triumphant tour of the South...
...part of Antigone is a much less sympathetic one: Anouilh has denied her any political heroism; and she must remain tense, unyielding, and yet believable in the face of Creon's eloquence and practical hopes. Maggie Ziskind's triumph is that she remains consistently believable. Antigone's loneliness, her anguish, her despertion--all these are capturd by Miss Ziskind's performance...
Instead he gets back to Ingrid, who, after wasting a lot of expensive gasoline and misting into a lot of high-priced caviar, gets back to Montand. Because everyone in the film registers constant anguish, Goodbye Again will be called a woman's picture-but not, one may lay odds, by many women...
...Carmody seems to have the gusto of Frank Skeffington, the roguish politician (modeled on James Michael Curley) who ran away with the earlier novel. But Charlie dwindles into a gabby stage Irishman. Father Kennedy promises to be one of Graham Greene's degraded but tormented priests. Instead, his anguish is smothered in resignation, and his vocation is feeble. Compared with The Last Hurrah, this novel is a kind of lost begorra...