Word: jarringly
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...Pastures, an unforgettable delight that opened on Broadway 35 years ago, ran for 640 performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...
...character, who has relived the most horrible moments of his life. Judi West as Maggie creates, in her first scene, the uneasiness we should expect even without our foreknowledge of Maggie's suicide. She is a pitiable, blond rag doll, figure clutching her bottle of whisky and jar of pills while viciously accusing Quentin of sins he never committed...
...ripe decay. Presiding over this exhumation was the master himself, smooth jowled, red cheeked and full of protesting innocence. "What I am really trying to do is to make a coherent statement about life," he said, "one that will force people to meditate a bit. I want to jar the observer into thinking, to make him uncomfortable. But I am not telling him what to think...
...understandably subdued. Now and then, as newsmen caught up with him, the President uttered only soft-toned commonplaces, totally noncommittal, often downright diffident. Only once was he caught off guard. Had he consulted with any of his political advisers? Replied he, in one of those remarks that somehow jar the image of the presidency: "The only political adviser I talked to I slept with...
...great thing that the resident actors at the Charles have done with Poet is to bring out the O'Neill form the difficulties of a misshapen form he had discarded. Because some passages jar, the organic structure of O'Neill tragedy--even when it is concealed by comedy--becomes more visible. Seeing Poet is like discovering that a girl is beautiful when what made you look again was an ink-smudge on her face...