Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yet beneath the surface of her character lay the qualities that were to sustain Ethel Kennedy and all those around her?an absolute dedication to the duties of wife and mother, a total devotion to her Roman Catholic faith, a steely will and discipline. The Kennedy women are the choral...
Both the contrary pulls and the limitations on self realization are the consequences of society. For Sirk, all characters exist only in relation to other characters and to objects. The relation is one of influence, expressed visually by resemblance. In a scene with another character, any character will take on...
The importance of a character's setting extends to objects and backgrounds, which are very prominent in Sirk's films. Objects define people's character and actions (for example, a Cupid statue Count Volski admires in his gazebo betrays the childishness of his lecherous tendencies). They also cramp people in...
It is always gratifying to witness a performer improve his role, and this production affords that gratification in triplicate to staunch Harvard Dilbert and Sullivan patrons. John McKean seems to have found, in Ralph Rackstraw, the Gilbertian lead to which he is best suited. The part calls for rapid changes...
OF THE OTHER characters, Stuart Rubinow as Dick Deadeye is the most striking. Rubinow's capacity for investing his villains with the most detestable and repugnant qualities seems infinite, and it is a shame that Deadeye gives him relatively little scope for this peculiar but essential ability. Also constrained by...