Word: anti-climaxed
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...Next Game is tomorrow at 10 a.m. And around Littauer, anyway, The Game is now known as "The Anti-climax...
...first ten minutes of The Island are an intense, powerful theatrical experience, a pantomime of toil and fatigue, blood and pain. The rest of the play is inevitably an anti-climax that never fully lives up to the expectations and intense atmosphere set up by the play's beginning. When Kani exhibits the quick comic energy that worked so well in Sizwe Banzi, although the audience is laughing and the comic relief much needed, it is as if the high drama of the opening is reduced to situation comedy. John's comic exasperation in teaching the plot of Antigone...
...everything after this is an anti-climax, either. Barnes' touch remains reliably strong throughout the whole play, which runs for three long and rewarding hours, mixing burlesque, absurdist tradition, and blank verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something...
Democrat Abraham D. Beame decisively won the four-way New York mayorality race last night with over 50 per cent of the votes. A light turnout at the polls was the anti-climax to a hard-fought campaign that began last January with a field of ten candidates...
...time or another, smoked pot, tried LSD, Psylocybin, Mescaline, Dexadrine, Alcohol, and so on ad infinitum. Being head of a drug education group and of reasonable sound mind and body, my motivation was curiousity of a most unmorbid sort--but each new experience left me with the same anti-climax. They were all interesting in one way or another, but nothing to write a book about. And now, preparing a drug education booklet on heroin, I figured it was time for the acid test. In no way was I going to subject readers to third-hand medicinal accounts or wailing...