Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rulers of Saudi Arabia wish Sadat well in his peace offensive. At the same time, they are afraid he will fail and are deeply concerned about the consequences of failure...
...succeeds where the others fail because Fred Silverman, the network's programming whiz, knows that audiences want to see characters on the tube. The people on ABC are often cartoon figures, but their outlines are filled in by talented and at times magnestic performers. Like Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball before them, Henry Winkler and Laverne & Shriley's Penny Marshall can transform rampant silliness into laughter...
...culture, our philosophy, our attitude toward reality. It is no accident that so many ordinary people refer to the world as a 'madhouse' or that the theme of insanity has recently become a staple in literature, art, drama and film...Millions sense the pathology that pervades the air, but fail to understand its roots. These roots lie not in this or that political doctrine, still less in some mystical core of despair or isolation presumed to inhere in the 'human condition.' Nor do they lie in science, technology, or legitimate demands for social change. They are traceable, instead...
With the exception of Margaret Heilbrun's kindly, effusive Aunt Julia, the other performances also fail to satisfy. Like Hedda, Judge Brack treats those around him with ironically-concealed scorn, matching Hedda's intelligence and selfishness in an intricate struggle for power. But Sam Merrick's wooden caricature blunts Aquino's subtlety. By the end of the play, his languid arrogance and unvarying inflection--each line curved with a sneer--have become thoroughly tiresome. While Ibsen undoubtedly intended Thea Elvsted to be a bland contrast to Hedda, Jennifer Mohr's dull, anxious characterization offers no emotional range or sense...
Among the questions still to be answered: Why did the police at Port Elizabeth fail to tell the examining doctors that Biko had suffered a head bump? Why did the doctors fail to diagnose the brain injury, even though they all noticed that Biko was incoherent? Why was a dying man subjected to a 14½-hour road trip to Pretoria? And what ever happened to the story that he had been on a hunger strike...