Word: beseech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barton, from Toronto, favors contemporary fantasies, steeped in rue and irony, like The Porcelain Man by Richard Kennedy. With his bemused schoolboy's face, Barton roams the stage, bending at the waist to beseech from his listeners the sympathy due this magically animated figure of China who-would you believe it?-falls in love but, alas, keeps smashing himself into pieces and being reassembled as a porcelain horse or, worse, a dinner set just before he can properly go awooing...