Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken great liberties with the play--the plot is so tightly constructed that it survives. Horror after horror piles up and our interest never flags. Nevertheless, we don't believe in what happens. Bendheim's is the only performance approaching credibility. By removing The Duchess of Malfi from a gossip-ridden palace and situating it in the dark recesses of the mind, Shiels and Raymond have made the tragedy more ghastly, the villains more sinister, but both less convincing. The directors have reduced Webster's tragedy to melodrama--enjoyable, fast-paced but cardboard. A tragedy should make us suffer vicariously...
...CURTAIN RISES and reveals an opulent set: the pool behind a sprawling Riviera mansion. The characters include the host, a Grand Old Man of English Letters, and his guest, the fashionable, wealthy, titled, or ornamental, who gossip and munch on scones. As the drama begins, it reveals a game of ambitious, but subtle, manipulation which some characters play at a leisurely pace, others with greater determination. Curiously, as the intrigue unfolds, the audience begins to recognize itself on stage. In horror, or delight, spectators watch the dissection of the characters' worst sides--their own. The Grand...
...role. She retains one's sympathy even when she is at her most enigmatic, even when, finally, she appalls. But the highest praise must go to Writer-Director Gabor. His wonderfully searching eye brings alive all sorts of difficult scenes-awful school social events, boring classroom discussions, dormitory gossip sessions-grants them a waywardness and a resonance that are rare. The deft economy with which he characterizes his heroine's classmates, preventing them from being mere types, is admirable. Strange and distant though his milieu is, it makes a rewarding and instructive place to visit...
With a circulation of 70,000, Star (not to be confused with the similarly named gossip magazine distributed in supermarkets throughout America) can hardly claim to mold public opinion. Boudreaux readily admits that the magazine merely reflects the enthusiastic efforts of amateurs to educate a woefully ignorant public as best...
First of all, the article does not belong in The Crimson; if I want to read gossip, I'll buy The National Enquirer. The result of printing sour grapes can only be negative; neither the men's nor women's swim program will merit...