Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the stage, waging some indefinite angry crusade, more bully than knight, but believable as both. The play itself is almost a twentieth-century Tom Jones, full of dark energy and strong life. This energy is what Teuber captures. "You're just an old Puritan at heart," his friend Cliff tells him. "Perhaps I am at that," he answers in a rare quiet moment. But that Puritan energy, that thrust toward suffering and feeling gives Jimmy's anger its direction. He wants to believe that there's "a kind of--burning virility of mind and spirit that looks for something...
Another good performance comes from Michael Ehrhardt, who plays Cliff Lewis, the "no man's land" in the war between Jimmy and Alison. Part of Ehrhardt's work was done for him by the script--he need only speak his lines and let the other characters rage against him to be effectively lovable. Happily, Ehrhardt does more. He plays Jimmy's punching bag with a surprising kindness, and his few moments of anger are that much more convincing...
SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. Jane Fonda, Rod Taylor and Cliff Robertson add style to a frail charade detailing the decline and fall of a 22-year-old virgin who has found virtue unrewarding...
...lashes it to a radiator pipe, gags her, decants a bottle of Haig & Haig over her while she's down, slugs her again. "Now sweetheart, baby, act sensibly," he coos. So she does. Later, the police find poor Therese under her wrecked Renault at the bottom of a cliff...
Calder constructs his colossi segment by segment in a studio near his 15th century farmhouse nestled against a limestone cliff, overlooking vineyards and crouched cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...