Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a snide edge not found in the original. The devil says he's been busy designing an Edsel, the Ford fiasco that went onto the market two years after the show first opened. When he envisions a gallery of great lovers through history, he mentions FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a sacred cow when the original show opened, and Hoover's companion and heir Clyde Tolson...
Well, it looks like the chickens have come home to roost, so to speak. Twelve days left until my thesis is due, and I still haven't given any written work to my advisor. True, we talk a lot, but what was it that J. Edgar Hoover used to say..."The time for talk has passed." Or something like that...
...full of stirring things the adult half-remembers and lovely oddments (Thomas A. Edison's diary in which he records that he was almost run over by a trolley because he was thinking fondly of his wife Mina) and entirely too much sentimental doggerel and the forced marches of Edgar Guest ("All this a baby costs, and yet/ His smile is worth...
With the emotional intensity of William Faulkner, the eeriness of Edgar Allen Poe and some of the old-style manners of Margaret Mitchell, the film version of Tennessee Williams' smashing play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," won four Academy Awards in 1951. Today those non-descript Oscar figurines should be polished to their original sheen because perfection, impossibly enough, has been improved. Four minutes of charged dialogue, violent actions and a different ending have returned this film to the state Williams and director Elia Kazan originally intended...
...first Best actor award, but he set the standard for modern day Method acting. His infamous cries of "Stelllllaaaaa...Stelllllaaaaa" have rung in the ears of audiences for years. Maybe now their tone will be even more embittered, and one of Blanche's opening lines, "Only Edgar Allen Poe could do justice to it," will finally be true in describing "A Streetcar Named Desire...