Word: genial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lange (who gives a smart, sturdy performance) to face the truth. Nor do they allow Laszlo a chance to justify, however speciously, his rancid past. They are content to dwell on the sins of the fathers, in which humanism stares at bestiality across the generation gap. Even in a genial mood, Laszlo sounds like a Nazi: "A healthy body makes a healthy spirit," he huffs as he completes a maniacal regimen of push-ups. Ann's father-in-law (Donald Moffat), who helped relocate Nazis as a CIA agent after the war, is no more enlightened. He derides the Holocaust...
Love Letters (1989). Sly and genial chronicler of Wasp foibles in The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A.R. Gurney went for gut emotion in this story of a half-century relationship told solely in letters. Weekly changes of cast (Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Thomas) demonstrate, despite individual triumphs, that the play's the thing...