Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity on the other hand, had experienced some rough going. Having staggered through victories over B.U., Middlebury, Holy Cross, Indiana, and Georgia, it had created a reputation for playing in cliff-hangers. And the week before the Centre encounter, the varsity had needed an eleventh-hour comeback to tie a good but not great Penn State eleven...
...furious, destructive, viciously witty and deeply troubled young man (rather like Hamlet), with few concessions made to the sensibilities of a family audience; and yet (again like Hamlet) he elicits a paradoxical sympathy and respect. His subtle three-cornered relationship with his wife Alison and their friend Cliff is still credible and touching, though much less deeply probed than in the play...
...Osborne is widely regarded as a deplorable cynic and naysayer, but in Cliff, who plays a wise, calm, and modest Horatio to Jimmy's Hamlet, he has created a character who must be unique in modern drama: a handsome young man who lives with a married couple, tied to them both by the warmest affection, yet endowed with hot pants for neither...
...friend of hers, who begins by hating Jimmy, crumples into his arms with incredible rapidity when Alison leaves him, and considerately vacates his bed when Alison comes home, Claire Bloom seems understandably tentative in a role that Mr. Osborne never finished conceiving. Garry Raymond is quietly admirable as Cliff, and Dame Edith Evans, in a brief appearance, makes an old Cockney woman thoroughly Dickensian and lovable, striking almost too simple and cheerful a note in a perplexed and perplexing film...
...Frozen Revolution, by Frank Gibney. An expert reading of Poland's cliff-hanging predicament, halfway between subjugation and freedom...