Word: goatish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police searched Smith's house they found pornographic material, including books with titles like Her Four-Legged Lover...
...Broadway revival, the usually cool Nelligan has turned up the heat to blistering lev els. Raucous, tender and compelling, she is an astonishment, the perfect instrument for young English Director David Leveaux's energetic and often surprisingly humorous conception of the play. She is ably supported by grand, goatish Jerome Kilty as her ever scheming father, and there is an atmosphere of stark eloquence in Brien Vahey's set and in Marc B. Weiss's subtle lighting. Only Bannen lets down the side. He is an intelligent actor, but he never finds the fire in the ashes...
...obscene boy," appears with the music of heaven, sublimely, effortlessly at his fingertips. And what a Mozart! Impudent, abrasively egocentric, silly in behavior, foul of mouth, a wine-bibbing libertine. Tim Curry's Mozart is unforgettable, an imp of the perverse, a strangely vulnerable Pan on a goatish night...