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...most common lament of stage actresses is a lack of good parts for older women. The Octette Bridge Club, a comedy about eight matronly Irish Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday during the 1930s and 1940s to play cards and swap stories, remedies that problem. The narrative is slight and achieves its climaxes by announcing rather than portraying them. But the current production displays some of Broadway's most skilled actresses demonstrating how to employ the briefest dialogue to imply unspoken volumes. Playwright Barry keeps the inner lives of the sisters well guarded, by intention: he means to examine...
...relationship" and raspberry mousse "Margaret." In his toast, the President mentioned the close friendships of Churchill and Roosevelt, of Harold Macmillan and John Kennedy, then said, "I'd like to add two more names to that list: Thatcher and Reagan." Thatcher broke up Reagan with several quips, including her lament that, despite sharing the same goals, she could not imitate his "wonderful American English accent, 'You ain't seen nothing yet.' " But the Prime Minister also poignantly captured the warmth between the two countries. Noting that people often asked her what the special relationship between Britain and the U.S. meant...
...Filly's overwhelmingly Harvard character does not foster romance; "The prospects for picking-up are futile," according to one experienced Eliot house male. Women echo the lament: "Guys never buy girls drinks; girls are left to fend for themselves," says an anonymous Lowell House senior. But if you sight a prospect, the unassuming lines are the best. If you see some interest, offer to buy (or wait to offered) an iced tea (the Filly's most popular drink); this indicates that both of you are speaking the same language...
...honeymoon in the seaport town of Dover, writing a brief poem that eventually would be remembered by many more people than would remember the Great Exhibition, indeed would become the most anthologized poem in English. But Dover Beach was not a celebration of the age; it was a lament, a complaint and a prayer. Looking coldly and sadly at what he saw as his country's destructive self-confidence, Arnold despaired that the advancement of knowledge should be attended by the loss of human feeling...
Moreax as Prince Hilarion sings well, and hams up his lines, but suffers by comparison to both Meridith and his Princess. Margery Hellmold, in the title role, possesses the stage from the moment of her entrance--but overplays her lament after her women have betrayed her, suggesting some sort of pseudo. Wagnerian melodrama. Douglas Freeman, as Hilarion's father, and Melody Scheiner, as Ida's lieutenant, both display the necessary gravity and force of will. Lisa Zeidenberg and Debra Staniunas, in the parts of female undergraduates, add a charming note of whimsy to their surrender to the unfair...