Word: glorious
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...been at it, listening and talking, for a half-century; the author of Death of a Salesman knows the stage's limits by now. In his poignant new play, The Last Yankee, he takes as his subject things the theater has a hard time showing: the outdoors on a glorious New England morning, and the inside of a woman's complicated mind. And he has stripped his story -- of a man visiting his wife, who has been hospitalized for depression -- down to its chassis, to certain private conversations in two scenes of one act. Then he refines it further. This...
...express. While the characters' occupations and social positions fluctuate, certain gestures and objects of intimacy reverberate through all the stories a hand ruffling hair, a rose in a lapel, a certain turn of phrase. The final effect is like looking at multiple exposures of a photograph, or into a glorious colored kaleidescope. Although Martin and John never tells us the exact details of these characters' lives, it gives a finely observed portrait of the way those lives feel...
...thousand years ago, Trojan War victor Agamemnon died of stab wounds in his bathtub. That his wife killed him wasn't the worst part. His glorious reputation tarnished by accusations of adultery and human sacrifice, the supreme allied commander kicked off without getting the chance to redeem his former glories in the eyes of the judgmental Argives...
...MOST GLORIOUS COMIC ACTING ON film, Peter O'Toole played a washed-up swashbuckling movie star, raddled with debauchery yet oddly innocent. The man journeyed hours to glimpse an estranged daughter but did not dare speak to her and dismissed his screen heroism as fakery until he thrillingly discovered that it, like all art, came from deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid...
...model for America in decline always cold, dreary and class-riven Britain, and not warm and enveloping Italy, where thoughts of the trade deficit fade in anticipation of the next glorious meal...