Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auditioning for the role of Amanda Prynne in the Middlebury College production of Private Lives, one coed had something of an edge. After all. Amanda Plummer had been named for Noel Coward's histrionic heroine 19 years earlier by Mother Tammy Grimes and Father Christopher Plummer. What is more, Tammy herself had won a 1970 Tony Award in the same role on Broadway. "I had seen my mum do the part many times, and I liked the way she did it," allowed Amanda, who invited her parents to Vermont to catch her college stage debut. Stage Mother Tammy gave...
...material, will ransack his memoirs for the better parts of the three plays (The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Parts I and II) in which he will appear as his roistering self. The ungrateful Shakespeare cast sturdy Falstaff as a buffoon instead of a wit, and a coward instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after the highway robbery lark...
Private Lives, Noel Coward's tremendously funny play about what might happen when you run into your exspouse on a balcony during your honeymoon with your current spouse, is playing at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston. Performances are Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.mn...
...young president's words linger in his mind, the words of the president whom he loved so much, "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." He has served his country; he did not flinch; he is not a coward. Yet he is full of rage and guilt that he neither desires nor understands...
...sand, forever ruffling itself up, whispering, cajoling, the river only sought to make the road unbend. Meanwhile, the highway dodged back and forth from canyon wall to cliffside, avoiding the river's embrace, grinding grimly and duty-driven as straight and narrow as it could--in short, a coward of a highway with a yellow stripe down the middle of its back, vaulting over danger spots where the river threatened to merge. It was one highway the bulldozers and steamrollers had pounded some morals into; and besides, this was North Carolina, where premarital merging is frowned upon...