Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge, who represented Wilkerson both times: "The district attorney's office good-old-boyed him into a death penalty." For his part, Wilkerson tries to make the best of life on death row: "It takes a great deal of personal effort to not become hard within yourself and hate the free world...
When Levine stops, it is generally to correct errors, polish details or discuss fine points of interpretation. There is little philosophizing about music, something musicians hate. "You can make even a bigger deal out of that," he will say to a reticent oboist, encouraging him to play a phrase more grandly. "Bass drum, diminuendo, a little less all the way through," he will call out to an enthusiastic percussionist. Levine rarely raises his voice, preferring to maintain a relaxed but efficient atmosphere. "He's cool," says Trumpeter Melvyn Broiles. "I've never seen him flip out. He doesn...
More overtly than Top Girls, Catherine Hayes' Skirmishes deals with family conflicts. Among human institutions, the family is the closest relative that the drama has. It is theater in miniform, compacted of love, hate, sibling rivalry, alienation and reconciliation. In capsule form, that describes this play. Playwright Hayes puts two sisters in a room with their dying mother and the pair harrow up the past and the present with bitter intensity and acridly funny put-down humor...
...only child, Nicolas, now 22. But the role of mother proved impossible for her. ("I couldn't bring up Nicolas. I couldn't possibly have looked after a baby. I needed a mother. The mad existence I led, crying all the time.") Bardot's two great hates are photographers and the destruction of wildlife. She attributes her sympathy for the latter to her abhorrence of the former. ("I hate photographers. They don't allow us to live... That's why I can understand wild animals being pursued by men with rifles. Zoom lenses are like...
...become some kind of quiche-eater." To confirm these rock-ribbed fears that the erstwhile Gator's preference has turned to that metaphorical dish, they might very well point to the scene in Best Friends where, with a pout and an arched eyebrow. Burt grumbles to Goldie Hawn: "I hate grits." It is, it seems, a final, symbolic denial of his celluloid past...