Word: fleetingness
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When the author abandoned them, the characters were stranded in an unpleasant reality. Reality itself is peculiar to characters, because according to Pirandello actual people are merely "fleeting illusions," lacking the specific confines of a drama which would mark them with a firm and definite individuality.
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Warner) sends Hollywood's aging (46) tough guy James Cagney off on another gay whirl of crime. Cast as the same strutting, wisecracking thug he played so often in the '30s (now, in a fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six...
Orville opened his office to all comers, stocked it like a gift shop with articles to pass out to voters. With the help of a "strong man" city charter pushed through by his supporters, Orville chopped the once-dominant city council down to size, hired & fired department heads at will...
Please Believe Me (MGM) has the kind of plot that has given musicomedy books a bad name for years. Since this is not a musicomedy but a screwball farce, the series of studiously rigged romantic misunderstandings is even harder to take. Three suitors (Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) scramble...
Such a bold venture as setting the fleeting moment in its perspective is bound to run afoul of fast changing events on some points. But the broad analysis on which Professor Hughes bases his essay is both provocative and gives a long-range, sober base from which to view the...