Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every Sorbonne student knows, the road to raising hell in Paris is paved with good ammunition. The cobblestones of Paris, first laid in 1185, cracked against police helmets in the antiroyalist riots of 1830. They helped arm the socialist revolutionaries of 1848. They provided the enduring arsenal of the Paris Commune in the great battles across the barricades in 1871. With such textbook examples of tactics, it was hardly surprising that the student rioters of 1968 found the paving stones of the Left Bank a prime weapon in their nightly insurrections against the Gaullist regime...
...Catholics will simply ignore the encyclical, without considering themselves any the worse for it. "There are millions of people to whom the Pope seems to be saying, 'You are in sin,' " said Father Robert Fox of Chicago's Loyola University. "They're answering back, The hell...
...hubris of the man," said one long-time observer of Massachusetts politics, "is positively astounding. The man won't stop and he just doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell...
...Mckean provided a wooden and unconvincing Troilus, at least on opening night, and his youthful monotone, obviously deliberate in many places, grew way out of proportion in scenes when some acting would have been appropriate. Lisa Kelley fared a little better as Cressida, probably because the script requires one hell of a character change whether the actress likes it or not, but she spent most of her time struggling with difficult verse and a very strange costume reminiscent of early Ku Klux Klan...
...milk by playing as a fawning eunuch. My own reaction to this kind of performance is unprintable but I do think it's an obvious and unrewarding way to alter more accepted interpretations of the character. And this is also true of James Keach's Achilles, a psychopathic narcissistic Hell's Angel type, quickly uninteresting once the gag wears off. A more original job of reinterpretation is Schmidt's casting of Raymond Singer as the venemous fool Thersites, a character at once completely repellent yet perhaps the only moral person in the play. Singer is young and attractive, and therein...