Word: beg
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Alan J. Parker leads us along an analogous cinematic path in Fame. Despite inherently interesting material and an alluring score by Michael Gore, Fame is mired in an endless series of camera pans and scenes that beg a batch of questions. Parker leaves his audience hanging--for two hours--drawing us into his den with upbeat music and rousing clips of rhythmic, euphoric chaos. But characters rarely develop, and when they do, their plight and the plot remain exasperatingly unresolved...
Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger declared from an Oberammergau pulpit, "AntiSemitism has no part in this play." Saying that anti-Semitism can be brought on "by talking about it," he added: "I beg of everybody, particularly our Jewish friends, to stop reproaching us with an anti-Semitism totally alien to the historic roots and content of this play...
George W. Ball propounds the thesis of negative action for this country, a policy that has reduced us to a hesitant, cringing nation with no real friends and certainly no respect. His whole policy is do nothing, beg your allies for help and just hope that some time in the distant future things may work...
...internality of action in Terry Rex (much is thought, little happens) presents a dramatic dilemma for Leib, what might be called the problem of the inactive character. Talk, even when it is not "soap talk," is still talk, and begins, after a while, to beg for action. But Leib prefaces Terry Rex with the performance of Terry Won't Talk. This play, after all, is the product of Terry's mind, and serves to mirror that mind, highlighting in dumbshow the roiling preoccupations which, although related to Terry's burden of the past, more directly prevent him from writing...
...beg to differ with your headline "In Manhattan: Mink Is No Four-Letter Word" [Feb. 18]. It is a four-letter word to humane-society workers and to the tens of millions of animals that are cruelly trapped or "ranched" each year in the name of fashion and vanity. Those in the humane movement are more than "passersby [who] mutter about cruelty to animals." We speak loud and clear: Animals have rights...