Word: archings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors in this production manages to find a unique and distinctive voice for his or her character that brings the author's conception to life. The pugnacious bluntness of Martin's Will contrasts sharply with the desperately self-mocking sophistication of Kneeland's Alfred; Tucci's coolly arch Emily and the naive kookiness of Christina Pickles's Margaret are carefully crafted studies in opposition. These characterizations, expressed as much through inflection and gesture as in the words spoken, add greatly to the play's dramatic intensity...
...some merit only in the last, but went along with all three. In Kazan's production, Big Daddy came back to hear Maggie's false claim of pregnancy and to tell a smutty joke. This was a half-hearted compliance, but it did no real damage, though the arch of the play's structure had been prefectly satisfactory with Big Daddy serving solely as the keystone...
...loss to arch-rival B.U. was a hard one for the team to take--Radcliffe beat B.U. by 15 seconds in the Eastern Sprints...
...mere movie stars for her chatty "Suzy Says" column, but prefers writing about diplomats, heiresses, princes and other members of what used to be called the jet set. She can be a bit saccharine ("Fatesingh, the Maharajah of Baroda . . . goes by the impossible nickname of Jackie") but is rarely arch. "Everyone I meet is a story," chirps Suzy. "I have fun with everyone, including myself...
...outset, Mundome's principal character seems to be one of those pretentiously arch, self-preoccupied creatures-remotely derived from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and strained through the literary strictures of French neorealism-who infest European fiction. His name is Richard. He is a library archivist in charge of, yes, "fugitive and ephemeral materials." He is also the kind of man who will say, "Things are sometimes what they seem." But before the reader can begin to snarl or groan this incipient literary hedgehog changes into a devoted brother. His pretty sister Meg has just come home after...