Word: impishness
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...family in which Bobbie (Jenny Agutter), Phyllis (Sally Thomsett) and Peter (Gary Warren) grow up is nearly perfect. Mother (Dinah Sheridan) is impish and radiant, Father (Iain Cuthbertson) steadfast and affectionate. They all share the joys of Edwardian London, generous' Christmases and outings to the theater. But one evening two strange men appear and call Father away. "Some dire calamity is happening," says Bobbie, "I just know it." Indeed, Father does not return, and Mother tells the children that they will have to "play at being poor...
James J. Sloyan, as Daniel Berrigan, hovers around the trial like a director stepping into scences at a rehearsal to set them in order. He plays a fine Father Dan, a quick, impish man with almost perfect self-knowledge whose impious sense of humor makes his testimony even more telling when that humor disappears for a description of the horrors of the United States air war on Vietnam. Sloyan slipped on a few lines in the first-night performance, but he never dropped his role as the poetic activist guiding an adamant but occasionally confused group of Christian radicals through...
...other hand, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a far denser reality to the role of the morphine-addicted wife than Florence Eldridge did. Eldridge seemed more absent-minded and scatterbrained than deeply disturbed and confused. Fitzgerald is the shy convent girl, the impish coquette and the victim of the lonely despair of a thousand one-night stands spent in second-rate hotels. She blends these elements into a consummately poignant portrait of a woman for whom drugs are the only surcease from sorrow. She, rather than the father, seems to dominate the play...
...news-service wires, had inadvertently sent an actual warning tape. To unstick the panic button and resolve the confusion, the center finally got through the prearranged code signal canceling the alert. Quite unintentionally, it sounded a sardonically witty note: CANCEL MESSAGE SENT AT 09:33 EST. MESSAGE AUTHENTICATOR: IMPISH, IMPISH...
Brown has an impish solution. Already in the hopper is his resolution for a constitutional amendment to abolish the Senate and create in its place a House of Lords, whose duties would be nonexistent. "To qualify," reads his resolution, "each member must swear or affirm publicly that he is a sincere candidate for the President of the United States...