Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is a compulsively fascinating dramatic typhoon in which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving and caustically humorous-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life has become a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson gives a performance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
Though few Republican leaders could disagree with the report's findings, they could hardly accept its recommended remedies. The liberals demanded that the National Committee elicit no-discrimination pledges from all state and local G.O.P. groups on pain of expulsion, and require Mississippi's Republicans to drop the pro-segregation platform plank they adopted in 1964. The party's congressional leadership, urged the report, should reject converts such as South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Albert Watson unless they state their "agreement with the cardinal Republican principle of equal opportunity for all Americans" before...
...Tyrones' empathy, their shared love and pain, must be played out as vividly as their individual torments. O'Neill has provided the lines for this, Ginn hasn't given the direction. Long Day's Journey abounds with sentences interrupted or regretted by their speaker, moments of nakedness in which Jamie's concern breaks through his mask of cynicism, or Edmund's raw anger smashes his attempts at peacemaking...
...Neill said the play was one of "tears and blood." The Loeb production is unquestionably powerful, but it is scarcely sympathetic. The blood is there, for the play's moments of pain are magnificent. But of the tears there is only the faint glistening on Mary Tyrone's cheek...
Cassius' biggest pain was in his pocketbook. His share of the purse was only $100,000-the smallest payoff to a defending champion since 1952, when Jersey Joe Walcott got $92,000 for fighting Ezzard Charles for the fourth time...