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Perverse Sympathy. He never did. In fact, Hoffa's stubborn fight against imprisonment touched a perverse chord of sympathy among his union members. Casting himself in the role of Jean Valjean, Hoffa shouted: "To hell with all our enemies"-and his Teamsters loved it. He played to the hilt the fiction that he was the persecuted Everyman, the scapegoat of the Establishment...
...rebel regime came to terms. Such sanctions would hurt the Smith regime, perhaps even to the point of causing a white exodus from Rhodesia. But they could also bring Britain into direct confrontation with South Africa, its fourth largest customer, which announced that it would support Rhodesia to the hilt...
...short, Gielgud is never afraid to play Ivanov to the hilt. He fully, uses his absolute mastery of technique -- spewing lines at fantastic speed which still remain intelligible, of keeping his hands in constant motion. Just before his death, within the space of 90 seconds Ivanov goes through three distinct phases--black laughter, broken despair, and suicidal resolve. This is theatricality in the grand manner, and Gielgud carries it off. His Ivanov has the desperation and the savagery, and his suicide is not only believable, it is inevitable...
...Atlanta, an avant-garde theater group called the Interplayers has decided to play happenings to the hilt. One night, they ran a lawnmower down the aisles and accidentally set fire to the sets. On another, the audience was sent to a nearby art gallery, where they found leftover Christmas trees and a huge mound of peanuts. After putting paper bags over their heads, "to ensure the fertility of Georgia's famous goobers", everyone ended up madly shelling each other with peanuts...
Between Two Epochs. Mrs. Tuchman finds equal significance in the Dreyfus Affair: "While it lasted, France exhibited, as in the Revolution, political man at his most combative. Men plunged up to the hilt of their capacities and beliefs. They held nothing back. On the eve of the new century the Affair revealed what energies and ferocities were at hand to greet it." And as Jaurès' death dramatized, it was the era in which the Socialist notion that all the workers of the world could unite on anything turned out to be fantasy...