Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prides himself on his ability to work coolly under stress, as he did in August 1965, when he was called in at the last minute to devise the strategy that eventually quieted a ravaged city. Seventeen months after taking charge, he cannot hide his enthusiasm at being chief. "I love the challenge," he says. "It scares hell out of me, but I love it." He adds: "This is the year...
...Miss Miner's role is a short one, but she is properly attractive, ample, and shrewish. Curly headed Troobnick, imported by the Festival just for this role, fits to perfection Shaw's prescription of "a small, thin, ridiculous little man." He has no trouble convincing us of his great love of animals, and is wholly at home in Shaw's amusing baby-talk (such as "Did um get an awful thorn into um's tootsums wootsums?"). The extraction of the thorn from the Lion's paw is nicely handled, after which Androcles and the Lion perform a waltz that starts...
After Lavinia, the most important character is the Roman Captain. Wheeled in at his imposing first entrance, and decked out in armor with a raspberry cape, Josef Sommer makes him a formidable figure indeed. He is handsome, superior, intelligent, obviously used to command, and able to fall in love with another as forcefully as he is in love with himself...
...paradox not easily dismissable; also that the emphasis on Helena's "And I have found Demetrius like a jewel/Mine own, and not mine own" and Paul Schmidt's delivery of Oberon's "Her dotage now I do begin to pity" speech suggest an individual and serious attitude about love and love-making; also that the third-act curtain (which I won't ruin by describing) and the corresponding images at the end of Act Five are bittersweet and moving contrasts in which magical and real interchange, each left with its share of advantage over the other, each doomed...
...think one bad aspect of my life as far as the Police Department goes is that I never really fell in love with any girls up to the point where I joined the Police Department. And then afterward, the type of work I did on the force reflected a sort of bad attitude toward w-o men in general...