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Word: monstruous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Montoya was very good in the lead role, both verbally and mimetically. As the professor became increasingly less fatuous and more monstruous, Montoya's characterization kept pace. He was fully able to express the variety of moods demanded by the part, from the timid but pompous gentleman of the beginning to the frenzied, lewd murderer of the climax. His fluent dialogue was matched by a physical command of the role, as much in his comic pantomimes before an invisible blackboard as in his sinister posture just before the murder, when he crouches next to his victim like something inhuman...

Author: By Randall Conrad, | Title: La Lecon | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

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