Word: naggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening of the play, it seems that no worthwhile interaction can occur between this hostile group of women; they bicker and nag incessantly. Yet over the course of this short two-act drama, these four outcasts who face society's scorn try to show each other how to beat the male-dominated system...
...characters of mother and daughter are completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...
...cyclical nature of it all is even starting to nag at Mr. Antrobus' indefatigable fortitude. In the play's most serious moment, as the family tries to reestablish its happy home, Mr. Antrobus warns his wife, "You and I must never forget those resolves in peacetime that were so clear to us in times...
Transient anxieties also nag at him from reports of snafus at the statue's original dedication. In 1886 it rained on their parade. "If it drizzles," says Wolper, "we all get umbrellas. If it's a hurricane, we go the following evening." At the first ceremony, the signal to drop the French tricolor veil from Liberty's face set guns to booming and crowds to cheering during a speech by New York Senator William Evarts. Wolper's nightmare: the President hits the button to light the statue, but nothing happens. So a $250,000 backup system is in place...
...this country. If I were not convinced myself of how many sincere Filipinos there are, I would have given up long ago. But I really believe that we have enough dedicated people to see this through. I have already explained what our needs are. I don't like to nag. It's just a question of are we friends or aren...