Word: dreadfulness
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...employer lover, and Zabielski is ardent and elegant as the ex-fiance. But the dry winy brilliance of Pirandello dominates the evening. He carved out the themes of loneliness, absurdity and alienation, and in the 41 years since his death, serious modern drama has become a realm of metaphysical dread of which he felt the first tormented shudder...
Shuttling between illusion and reality, the pair is never offstage. Perhaps no actor ever is. John and Robert display the vanities and insecurities of their craft, the exhilaration and the stomach-pit dread, the droll nuances of paying insults in the guise of compliments. The play may perhaps come too close to shoptalk...
...malaise -"were defying all our usual concepts of pneumonia." So he promptly sent off blood samples to Atlanta's Center for Disease Control (CDC). A few weeks later the center's sleuths confirmed Beaty's worst fears. His "pneumonia" patients were, in fact, victims of the dread ailment known as Legionnaires' disease...
...transition from secret dread to relief was not abrupt...
Despite the hardships of life in West Germany, most Gastarbeiter dread leaving because of the poor economic conditions in their home countries. Advertising for brides is one sign of their determination to remain. Conceded a Greek Putzfrau (charwoman) a bit exaggeratedly: "I know the West Germans wish us to hell, but we stick it out because at home we would barely have enough...