Word: moribundity
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...next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Don Scardino-are a talented crew. The best of The People Next Door is the brilliant, low-key camera work of Gordon Willis, whose fine eye for color and composition enlivened other moribund exercises, like End of the Road and The Landlord. Perhaps Willis, instead of investing such care in this project, might better have shut off all the lights on the set and left The People Next Door, with its author, in total darkness...
...plagues. His Manhattan shop has burned to the ground while insufficiently insured. His wife Fanny (Ida Kaminska) is on her death bed and driving him meshugge (crazy) with petty demands. His back is killing him and-ah, cruel Jehovah!-his only daughter has married an Italian. His faith is moribund, and to revive it an unlikely angel descends from above. He is a newly dead Jewish Negro named Alexander Levine (Harry Belafonte) who says a lot of hip, dirty words that Mishkin does not understand, but who also pleads with the old tailor: "Man, I'm an angel...
...seemed a carnival of wit and style. At moments the carnival even appeared to have direction. Plays like John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, novels like Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, revues like Beyond the Fringe seemed to be acts of ruddy good health against a moribund Establishment. Old England was dead. Long live new England...
...have a full time resident opera company, and it would have no place to put one if it did. The Boston Opera House was closed over a decade ago to make way for some form of progress or another, and since that time, opera in this city has been moribund...
...ills they are intended to cure. Beyond that, the viability of Lenin's thought has been affected by social changes he did not, indeed could not, account for. Like many another Marxist, he grossly underrated the productive vitality and capacity for change in what he considered a moribund capitalist world. Lenin also did not have to confront today's youth. There is a fine irony in the fact that in many nations the revolutionary party he helped create is regarded as reactionary by the anti-Establishment young-witness the ferocious diatribes against French Communism by students involved...