Word: foolishness
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...little short on stage charisma, the story shifts slightly away from her and more toward the complex ensemble of people coping with their terror and with one another. George Hearn as Otto Frank has a hushed dignity; the Van Daans (Harris Yulin and Linda Lavin) seem less foolish and more touching than before. The play was a professional Broadway job to begin with; now it sometimes reaches poetry...
...grandfather. By the time Pentheus succumbs to Dionysos's offer of a chance to watch the Bacchae, and shamefully puts on a dress as the Maenads hoot and catcall, the audience feels little pity towards him. His imminent doom is not a tragedy; it is simply a foolish leader's receiving his just desserts. Yet during the drag scene, as childishly funny as it is, eroticism sparks between the nervous Pentheus (who has given up all his power to resemble a woman) and the smiling Dionysos, who now has complete control over his unsuspecting prey...
...Dionysos has triumphed over the foolish people of Thebes who did not believe in him. Before she falls into despair, however, Agave argues with the smirking Maenads that she is victorious, too. But who has really lost? The Bacchae are 'empowered,' so to speak, but look at Agave--she loses everything and is destroyed by her so-called 'victory.' At one point in the production, Dionysos smiles and says he loves all humanity except Pentheus, yet an entire city is ruined because some people didn't believe in him. In short, the gods are triumphant, and the people--even...
...came out with in January" and "There's a form to fill out for that--I believe it's 83-79." Through the fog, Costa began to see his options: "So if I got divorced it would be a different matter? For $30,000? Gee whiz..." Except for one foolish moment when Costa, swept away by all the goodwill, asked if he could have some coffee (Salinger: "Uh, no"), it all went pretty well. In the end, of course, Costa still owed $29,291, but he felt better about...
...when I came across a Charles Bronson film festival. "Chow Down With Chuck!" ordered the WABU 68 announcer, so I did. Ah, the campy violence! The atrocious special effects! The liberal use of the bluescreen! The painfully illogical plot! The script wrought with Dadaist precision! In a fit of foolish idealism, I blurted to my roommate, "You know, we sure have come a long way, at least in terms of action films...