Word: mortality
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...Mortal Nature. He arrives at first rehearsal deliberately uncertain about his part. He stammers out his speeches, tasting them with different inflections and accents, discarding conventional readings not because they are predictable, but because they do not tally with his instinct. This is what Playwright Bolt calls Scofield's "freewheeling" period in the shakedown. Bolt no longer worries about the false starts. "He never leaves in an effect for the sake of an effect," says the playwright. "With Scofield, you are guaranteed something pure...
When you've eliminated all the noes, you don't really need to say yes-the rest is what you're doing. The actor must honor the specific mortal nature of the man he represents. An archetype cannot be acted, as a performance cannot be written. A play is not a homily...
...chief criticisms of monarchy is that it is not only an anachronism but also a mighty expensive one. Japan's Emperor Hirohito, even though he formally declared himself mortal in 1946, draws a stipend of $3,000,000 a year, plus another $3,000,000 of taxpayers' funds to support an Imperial Household Agency of 1,200 officials. Inside the palace compound in Tokyo, a $38 million ceremonial hall is now abuilding for him, and a $27,000 Nissan Royal limousine has just been added to the royal fleet of three Rolls-Royces, a Daimler, a Cadillac...
...Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed to constitute a mortal...
Outside a dining room at the New York Stock Exchange stands a statue showing those indefatigable financial foes, the bull and the bear, locked in mortal combat. The bear seems to be losing, which is precisely what happened in the market last week. After a long, cold summer, the Big Board experienced its most dramatic one-day advance in three years. And papa bears, mama bears and baby bears, all of whom had been betting on a continued decline, suddenly found themselves running for cover...