Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elmo's Fire is as unphotogenic as our big-toothed friend from Central Europe, it is also as charmingly seductive. The ever messed-up rich kid, the starry-eyed boys with love fixation, the political idealist turned proto-Yuppie: they are not Jungian archetypes or timeless characters of world literature, but they are, for some of us, too painfully familiar...
...surgeon forced to operate in a straitjacket. So drudgy Tom sets the play's pace and defeats the efforts of Herrmann to animate this stick--a challenge not usually above him, as he demonstrated two years ago in Plenty, playing another man of propriety married to a disturbed idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony and spunk. Max Stafford- Clark's direction fills the stage at Manhattan's Public Theater with mausoleum...
...AGENT of this conflict, the character of Dolson is scarcely. Credible and even less like cable; with his wide-set eyes and square jaw, lvanek makes him appear almost Wagnerian in his stupidity. Presumably it is Dolson's duty, as the young idealist, the "hotheaded seminarian," to fight ceaselessly and crudely for truth, justice and the American way-sometime after his daily ten-mile run, presumably it is our duty to be charmed by the natural simplicity of his tantrums as when he a onetime bisexual, melodramatically denounces the Monsignor as a "homophobic autocral...
...government. By this time Daulton was an important man in his own right, in his own eyes: he had established a lucrative trade in cocaine and heroin, living high on the profits and slick-talking his way past a judicial system as indulgent as his parents. Soon, the renegade idealist and the venture capitalist joined forces to foul up the system by selling U.S. spy satellite codes to Soviet emissaries , in Mexico City. What delicious revenge on America's bland malevolence and institutional incompetence! What an entrepreneurial scam--the ultimate frat- house prank...
Such great control. His bland face and laid-back manner rarely reveal his inner feelings. Those who know him well say Ueberroth is a fascinating paradox, an idealist with a salting of cleverness, a man of high principle who is willing to go right to the edge of scruple to reach his goals. He once described himself as both shy and ruthless. Over the years he has perfected a calculating public modesty, down-playing himself about, say, his mediocre college grades. But behind the self-deprecation is a huge ego and a steely inner toughness. Everything Ueberroth does...