Word: despairful
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...dashing about putting last-minute touches on the concoction, attempting to restore the missing half of the red heart. The overture continues--a terrific pastiche of melodies from the score that follows--and so do the four bakers; they keep mugging at the audience, shrugging their shoulders in deep despair, and clattering into each other every step of the way. Finally, after several unsuccessful attempts at restoring the lost ventricle, leaps in the air and pratfalls off ladders, one of the bakers manages to fit the piece together. At the performance I saw, a further section of the heart broke...
...cast makes the transition smoothly, expressing its shock and despair at the prospect of its leader's death with equal conviction to that of its previous jubilation. In a brilliantly staged scene, the hanging on the cross is reenacted with the disciples tearfully watching and, ironically, helping to hang Christ (Allen Gifford) on a cleverly designed cross. Gifford really appears to swing from the structure, and the image is frighteningly effective as he calls out for help, "Father, I am dying!." swaying tenuously up near the ceiling. After his death, silence fills the theater until, resuming and even surpassing...
...truth as best it can, as fast as it can - and to tell it. A sense of national unity, in sadness and anxiety. A sense of outrage at violence. If the U.S. really were as fundamentally violent as it is made out, there would never be such uniform despair and disgust when violence occurred...
...framework for his book. The author's analysis of Channing and the slavery issue is the most provocative. He focuses on Channing's well-known 1842 document. The Duty of the Free States, and encourages us to read it "as one among those mid-century expressions of alarm, even despair, at the unsatisfying choice that America now offered between a cheapened communitarian ideal and the grandiose self." Channing, a man who had believed in the law through most of his life, began to lose faith, suspicious of a legal system that sheltered the madness and cruelty of slavery. Channing...
...performances are good, and Eichhorn's is more than that, ranging from drunken despair to crisp reformation to, finally, gentle acquiescence in Bridges' fantasy. But the energy cell powering the whole works is Heard. Recent movies have been full of psychopaths, but this is the definitive statement on that snaky breed. The alternation of charm and rage, of bravado and self-pity-above all the watchful intelligence in the eyes, judging just how far he can go before people revolt against his manipulations-all this marks Heard's as a big but never too broad performance. That...