Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many out-of-the-way towns, military investigations and repression go on, and some 1,500 political prisoners still languish in Brazilian jails. Yet sudden, unexplained arrests are tapering off; the linha dura is quite visibly knuckling under to Castello Branco. "Sure I'm mad as hell," snapped one frustrated colonel last week. "But the Old Man is right. At least Arraes will think twice now before he tries anything else." And so, it seemed clear, would the linha dura...
...Rivals recreates the England of 1775, complete with beautiful young ladies, their handsome and ardent lovers, and their meddling, if indulgent, parents. There's Miss Lydia Languish, an orphan of high birth determined to marry a soldier of low birth. And there's her lover, nobly-born Captain Jack Absolute, who must pretend he's a commoner to win Lydia's affections...
...cast has as much fun playing these parts as the audience has watching them. Lynn Milgrim, a frequent visitor to the Harvard stage, lets her mobile face and huge eyes go wild. Her Lydia Languish pouts, purrs, and scolds with vivacious charm. Katherine Squire as Mrs. Malaprop declaims her ridiculous lines with such assurance and poise that they seem even more ridiculous. Earl Montgomery as Sir Anthony is a combination of Elliott Perkins and Nikita Khrushchev, polite and civilized one minute, stamping and roaring the next. As his son, the Captain, Richard Clarke views the behavior of Sir Anthony...
...Madison Ave. at 66th. The son of Broadway's Funny Girl Fanny Brice seems to have inherited his mother's fancy for art but not her sense of humor. His tragic nudes used to flower like human vegetation in a symbolic embrace with nature; now they languish outside the bleak windows of the artist's studio. Oils and drawings. Through April...
...than the Advocate median is "Set Theory," by Donald Bloch, a mature and controlled observation of a son returned from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...