Word: fool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watching Reagan's tragic descent, however, inspires only one thought in the audience: that fool has done it again. It is a feeling of pathos, not of real tragedy. Consequently, this new production fails to evoke a true feeling of suspense; the audience knows full well how the plot will end. All that remains to be seen is how the action will resolve itself in getting to an all-too-predictable destination...
That same local entertainment writer wants to set up a meeting between the two of us. Me and her, like the rubber man and the bearded lady. Wonderful. If he can find her--and I've got my fingers crossed that he can't--I'll play the fool. It'll help out a fellow journalist...
Wanda: Well, a contract might stipulate that the husband agrees to do half the vacuuming and child rearing or take the wife out to dinner at least twice a week for the length of the marriage. Then there are sexual provisions. One contract might specify that the husband can fool around only when he is out of town. Some agreements say the husband or wife gets a night or two out each week with no questions asked, and many contracts insist that the bride and groom detail their sexual life histories before the wedding...
Ironically, Americans have ample evidence that Reagan is more arrogant than ignorant, more a devious liar than a genial fool. As Christopher Hitchens pointed out in a recent issue of The Nation, when Reagan told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that he himself had liberated Jews from the Nazi death camps he was not simply making a blunder. Reagan never left the country during the War, and he knows it; it's hard to confuse Hollywood with Auschwitz. By the same token, when Reagan claimed he had received a message "from Pope John Paul urging us to continue our efforts...
Some of the worst productions (as well as some of the best) are served up by graduates of the Dramatic Arts courses. Their effect, is, I think, minimal. Technical expertise is at a premium, as any fool can pretend to act but very few can design a light plot. The ART and the unsung hero of Harvard theater, the Loeb's Don Soule, have made an effort to educate fledgling dramatists and designers in the basics, but we must admit that for training we should have gone to Yale or Carnegie-Mellon and press on without...