Word: defectiveness
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...stock Feydeau device is a shady hotel where the liaisons are to be consummated in a room simultaneously booked to two or three couples. There is inevitably a physical defect that Feydeau manages to make howlingly funny rather than mockingly cruel. This time there is a stone-deaf lady (Helen Burns), who is being taken to Carmen for a treat, after which her medical-officer husband (Tony Van Bridge) intends to mix her a sleeping potion to celebrate the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. There is always a foreign couple (Swedish, in this case) who come in for some...
...drab bodystocking which fails to distinguish him from even the three-line walk-ons. He simply lacks the physical stature which Brutus requires to dominate the play. There is nothing wrong with Hilton's approach to the role, but his costuming detracts severely from his credibility. This defect changes the entire emphasis of the play. Normally, Julius Caesar is a drama which builds consistently to Antony's eulogy of Brutus, "This was the noblest Roman of them all". In this performance, though, the action of this play is resolved by Caesar's funeral, and the last two acts become denouement...
...little, lose a little for Ballerina Natalia Malcarova, 30, who defected from Russia last year and joined the American Ballet Theater. She won a fiancé, Vladimir Rodzianko, who had helped her defect and left his wife and two children to be her manager. But she lost the chance to dance before Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Ballet's gala when she tore a muscle in her thigh...
...Rejection is the spontaneous reaction," says Esser. "As children grow into society's system of norms, they also grow into pity." - Children dislike slightly handicapped youngsters more than gravely handicapped ones. Esser's explanation is that healthy children at first think of a child with a minor defect as an equal, but then are disappointed and angered when they find he cannot keep up. By contrast, a child on crutches or in a wheelchair is so "different" that the healthy child feels no sense of identification. ∧ Ignorance is a major obstacle to social contact with the handicapped...
...should be regarded as items, like fan belts, that must be regularly checked and serviced when necessary-although they rarely are on most cars. Yet the company apparently did not want to test that claim in court. Federal officials last week were preparing to issue a formal notification of defect. By announcing the recall, G.M. clearly hopes to avoid any legal entanglement resulting from problems with the engine mounts...