Word: hopelessly
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...most grotesque character is touched with common humanity. Albee's people are less odd, but more inhuman. To O'Neill, marriage had its serpents, but they were invaders in Eden. To Albee, marriage seems to be a no-exit hell in which the only intimacy is a hopeless common damnation. But a powerful play never founders on its flaws. Albee's language is whiplash strong and leaves welts. His characters are rivetingly modern, and their weird autobiographical outbursts carry a numbing conviction...
...federal government must use additional power in its executive and legislative capacities, and must destroy the illusions that "time will solve our worries," and that "further legislation will prove hopeless...
...Hopeless from the Start. On the whole, the audiences seemed to like the absence of decorations that overwhelm the dancers in Bolshoi productions such as Spartacus. Said Composer Aram Khachaturian : "If Balanchine had done the choreography for my Spartacus, it wouldn't have been a flop." Balanchine politely disagreed. Spartacus was hopeless from the start, he said, because it was based on a false conception. Like much of Russian ballet, it subordinated music and dancing to plot and decoration, whereas ballet should be music and dance - first, last and foremost...
...Dragnet theme and much hissing). This time, Mulberry has snagged the innocent daughter of businessman Harvey Smith, whose name breathes dollars. With piercing insight, Milly recognizes that Mulberry is in love with Alice Smith only for her money, and she immediately plunges to the crux of her hopeless moral dilemma...
...stomach and his eyebrows at everybody. He also has one good line: "I'm free," he announces triumphantly in the second act. "I've got that lousy free feeling." And there's another actor also who should be mentioned. He's Charles Grodin, a young man who plays the hopeless role of Miss Leighton's son--hopeless because the role is one of those zany parts that ordinarily crop up only in the less marketable plays of Blair Brown--and makes it quite memorable...