Word: hectoring
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...respective leaders reconsider their strategies. Ulysses (Adam Smith Albion), a sort of Greek Henry Kissinger, formulates a plan which will serve the dual purpose of reanimating the Greeks best fighter, the now lazy and spaced-out Achilles (Patrick Bradford), as well as do away with the Trojan he-man Hector (Maja Hellmold...
Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida's uncle Pandarus (Nick Lawrence) only to discover that a Greco-Trojan conference committee has decided that Cressida must be turned over to enemy camp in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war. Thus, the play ends with Troilus and Cressida cursing the Gods on Mount Olympus, Pandarus cursing himself...
...EXTENSIVE 20-MEMBER CAST features everything from the unusual to the bizarre to the spectacular. A foot and a half shorter and 50 pounds lighter than her Trojan cohorts, Maja Hellmond's first appearance on stage as Hector is disconcerting to an audience accustomed to some Homeric vision of the Greek hero. Although Hellmond does a good job of trying to make the audience forget that she is a girl, the physical constraints of the role complicate her portrayal. Battling with Bradford, Hellmond manages to throw him over her shoulders only with a great deal of assistance from her costar...
...Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club. There he meets a car dealer (Richard Crenna), slightly shady and blatantly materialistic, who tries to tempt him away from the good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall's story about competing father figures, and Garry Marshall's direction is unforced but never lackadaisical. The movie is rich in the eccentrically comic details of club...
...Foreign Investment Review Agency and the National Energy Program. As a result of these gestures, Canada has lost that very valuable infusion of job-creating capital we need. Now add to that what has always struck me as a dismayingly perverse dimension of Liberal policy, which was to hector and harass our friends and allies, including the U.S. My position is always that we should give our friends the benefit of a doubt. I think a lot of people in the U.S. are concerned about some of the things that Canada has been up to, and they have responded...