Word: forcefullness
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The Threepenny Opera is often cited for its lyrical and musical inventiveness, qualities which the Loeb production brings to the fore. But the lasting power of the play lies in the persistence of the problems which were paramount to Brecht's political concerns--the perversion of human character by poverty...
The power of Miller's writing is apparent even in the unsteady Boston production. The disturbing questions which the play raises about the meaning of success and happiness are still discernable. Unfortunately, the actors have added nothing to the impact of Miller's already forceful text. They have taken his...
He is still the undisputed boss of the nation's last surviving big political machine, but the machine itself is slowly deteriorating. The corruption that has long been one of its largely hidden ingredients is now being exposed and examined under the twin spotlights of sophisticated investigative reporting and...
Guild-Like Family. He was a fastidious inheritor who left no heirs, and this seems to have been as true in the sense of family as that of cultural choice. The Guggenheim's retrospective opens with a separate exhibition - also funded by a grant from the Alcoa and Pro...
Yet as brutal and mangy as it is, the movie still works. It is an adept and forceful B picture, deriving much of its energy from its own streamlined sleaziness and from the skills of its two stars, Elliott Gould and Robert Blake. Both of them have a kind of...