Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dracula. Looking like a haunted Byronic prince, Frank Langella sucks blood as if it were champagne...
SPRING AWAKENING by Frank Wedekind...
Pity the adolescent caught between the grip of nature and the vise of society. At puberty, nature rushes him toward sexual awareness. Society puts up a fence of conventions. In this play, written in repressively conventional 1891 by German Playwright Frank Wedekind, some of the adolescents are impaled on the fence...
Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes pregnant by Melchior and dies during an abortion...
...icily frank appraisal, like a line out of Wheels, sums up a relationship between two strong-willed men that was never warm and has been deteriorating for several years. "The body chemistry wasn't right," said Henry W. Gadsden, one of the several outside directors who hoped that the president could stay on. Both Ford and lacocca can be at times charming, abrasive, cordial and arch. A clash of their personalities was all but inevitable from the moment that Ford, the celebrated heir who liked to remind subordinates that "my name is on the building," elevated lacocca, the ambitious...