Word: guessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twigg. It was in her London sitting room, Pike says, that he first got in touch with Jim. "I am not in purgatory," the boy told his father, "but something like hell, here." He mustered enough wit, however, to remark: "Remember our discussions about life after death? Well, I guess we settled that...
...almost every viewer has been jolted by the National Safety Council ad showing a couple tooling down a highway. An announcer's voice says "Guess who Sid and Gladys ran into day before yesterday?" There is silence, then the sickening sound of a collision followed by the return of the voice with the answer: "Hank and Marilyn." Even Smokey the Bear is growling nowadays: his fire-prevention spots feature footage of charred woodlands...
...might guess, directing Sligar and Son is not of the most enviable jobs on God's Earth. Still, Chris Sorensen could have done more to soften the blows the plawright's pen have wrought. With a heavy-handed script, heavy-handed performances aren't exactly the order of the day, yet that is primarily what we get from the largely freshman cast. Typical is Glenn Schewtz as the gum-chewing father. He has a strange way with a line, and Sorensen might have tried to correct the problem. Schewtz starts off slow and loud, then becomes fast and loud like...
...uncritical director could, I guess, go too far excavating hints of one writer's insurrection against contemporary dogma. But in Euripedes the hints are powerful, and the greater danger probably that of underinterpretation. There is no avoiding, for example, his irregular attitude toward the divinity, which seems to have ranged from outright negation to the most grudging and unsettling sort of affirmation. In The Bacchae, the gods are gods indeed, but their order is--besides whimsical--cruel and misguided. And Mayer's willingness to portray Dionysus as an effeminate, self-absorbed individual, worthy of nearly every label the unbelieving Pentheus...
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