Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Playwright Peter Nichols uses imagination and resourceful humor to traverse territory mined with pain. Albert Finney and Zena Walker deftly handle changes of pace and mood as the parents of a spastic child...
...Sonny & Cher, they did not drop out of school; unlike Bob Dylan, they did not run away from home. They are New York City-bred college graduates who see their philosophy as basically opposed to that of the hippies. "Why is it I feel compelled to write about this pain I see?" says Simon, who is responsible for all the lyrics and most of the music. "I could split and be free and do whatever I want. I said to myself, well, why don't I? Because I'm here, that...
Like so many rock troubadours, S. & G. see pain in the affluent society-in alienation, lack of communication, insincerity, mindless cocktail-hour chatter-but they succeed with these tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays...
...continued to twist and turn my knee as I looked at him courageously, wringing my hands to quell the pain. Sullenly he stopped and continued to fill out my form. When he was done, he turned to me and said, "Both the Army and you will be happy to know that you are unqualified for military service because of your knee...
...walking directorial comment, carrying a special and limited message: behind these three acts of comic and pathetic folly are the forces of materialism and cultural prostitution. Shuman does his turn admirably. Looking for all the world like an afternoon at the Broadway Super-Market, he graphically mimes both pain and self-absorption. But at the point in the third act when he and Hamlin finally stand face to face, no amount of individual stagecraft can forestall the recognition that they are acting in different plays. Hamlin, for better or whose, is playing a text about an individual's realization that...