Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this moment of redemption, as he bids goodbye to his dead mother, Arcularis for the first time accepts death as the end of life: "Good night, May the dark be good to you, and all darkness to all men." And in the operating room a few minutes later the heart of Mr. Arcularis stops...
...simultaneous awareness of how desperately rare is the gift of compassion. Before the disinterested eyes of the medical students, who will later be quizzed on the operation, the life on which the play has been built ceases. And an officious nurse remarks, as she draws a sheet across the dead face, "What a pity. Such a charming...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "Book of the Dead," a dramatization of the ancient Egyptian literature that instructed Nile dwellers for life after death...
Poor little tug, he's a dead bird for that no-hope shicer (John McCullum) who keeps the local rubbedy, where the cow-cockies and swaggies get shickered up on Saturday night. He's chronic, that man, a bit of a bludger, and maybe even a tea leaf. He not only smoodges Smiley into some mauldy business with the abos, but before you know it, he's up to putty with the new schoolteacher (Jocelyn Hernfield)-now there's a basket of oranges!-whom he would obviously like to blackbird...
When the idyl is broken by the arrival of the NKVD major, Hryhory shoots the man dead and escapes to Manchuria and freedom with Natalka. The mythic and dreamlike quality of the book suggests that Author Bahriany may be more interested in symbolism than adventure. But his fine telling of man's struggle against nature seems more compelling than his deeply felt account of a freedom fighter's war with totalitarianism...