Word: cometh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever...
...dispute. The centenary has, to be sure, sparked revivals of some of his works by theater groups across the country. But a mere handful of his 50 plays are now resurrected for the theater with any regularity. And of this small sample, which includes Ah, Wilderness! and The Iceman Cometh, only one seems surefire with playgoers and critics alike: A Long Day's Journey into Night, which was published after O'Neill's death and then performed first in 1956 despite his stated wish that it "never ((be)) produced as a play...
...student in the class played Tom from Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, another portrayed Strinberg's Miss Julie and another played Hickey from Eugene O'Neil's Iceman Cometh. One woman did a piece from a Greek tragedy entirely in Greek and another portrayed "a woman who basically was having sex with a decapitated head...
...imagining basketball players like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan across the net from West Germany's Boris Becker. But this comfortable fantasy may have lost something since Brazil trimmed David Robinson, Danny Manning and the rest of America's college elite in the Pan Am Games. Some cry, "Whence cometh the next John McEnroe?" But others are pleased to remember that, if only by the accident of his father's army station, he cometh from Germany. McEnroe broke his old record for ugly behavior at the Open, earning $17,500 in fines and a two-month suspension. Shortly after, Czechoslovakia...
Jason Robards was a journeyman actor when he auditioned for Director Jose Quintero in 1956 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. After reading for another role, Robards asked for a chance to try the climactic final monologue of the central character, Hickey, a backslapping little salesman some two decades older than the lean, magisterial Robards was then. Of the reading, Quintero says: "The way he peeled away Hickey's cheerful front to get to the madness and guilt underneath was terrifying." Robards got the part, the production established both him and Quintero as major forces...