Word: loutishly
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From the moment Metcalf stalks into Pendleton's office, she is obviously a woman of brains and determination. She brushes aside her teacher's advances. ; She is looking not for a more upscale successor to her loutish husband but for a fuller sense of herself. Uncluttered by flirtation, the contrast between the student's will to win and her teacher's self-destructive need to fail emerges sharply, and the play becomes a discerning essay on how much of anyone's fate is self-imposed. Like Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green, to which it owes its basic theme, this...
...Women (1985) so scandalous. In fact, dissatisfied wives are given some tart remarks to make about their variously unsatisfactory husbands. And if Amis continues to put liberal ideas through scorching ridicule, he also allows one of his men an expression of sympathy for Britain's unemployed, albeit loutish, youth. Even so, these concessions never denature Amis' characteristic bite; instead they suggest a new pathos behind the comic facade...
Director Max Charruyer, Set Designer John-Michael Deegan and Lighting Designer John Conway have skillfully interwoven the dramatized and quasi- documentary scenes and monologues for each character. Kelly's best help, however, comes from a superb ensemble cast, especially Christie, Michael Countryman as Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help...
Women and politics, not to mention men, take a thorough drubbing in The Good Terrorist. The heroine, Alice Mellings, 36, is thick-witted, tubby and held in thrall by her "admiration and wistful love" for Jasper Willis, a loutish layabout who also happens to be a homosexual. Alice's adult life has been spent caring for this creep and setting up a succession of "squats," or communes, where they can live until Jasper wears out his welcome, which seldom takes long. After four years of staying with and sponging off Alice's divorced mother (whose class Jasper winningly calls "bourgeois...
...past, Kremlin propaganda has often sounded to the rest of the world, and even to Soviet citizens, like, well, propaganda. The Soviets were once clumsy and loutish as salesmen. When Nikita Khrushchev wanted to make a point at the United Nations in 1960, he took off his shoe and waved it. Mikhail Gorbachev, by contrast, is a walking advertisement for a different Soviet way of doing things. He is a smooth performer in public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example...