Word: painfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Isham's mugging is confined to the one simple expression he is capable of making--severe pain--although, to be fair, he has one of the nicest voices in the show. There are painfully few singers in this show; some are barely able to carry a tune let alone handle phrasing. Sonia Dula, as the ingenue Neferbinkist, is the most obvious example of this. Her performance as a sweet young thing depends on a pretty face and a lack of presence. Apparently, almost no one can dance either, to judge from the few steps Kay Stone choreographed. It's difficult...
...just wasn't himself. He wasn't the same fencer who won 26 of 30 dual meet bouts. Because of the pain in his heel, Vastola, especially in the early rounds of the finals, spent his time reacting rather than forcing reaction. "I tried to be defensive and use counter-attacks. You can't do that against good fencers. You're playing a cat-and-mouse game and preying on their mistakes," he said...
...tips of its sweatsocks and the carnival was irrevocably altered when the college became coed, the last Ivy League school to do so. Had the bite been taken out of the apple, or was this the doorway to Eden? No one could say. But presumably because of the pain involved, the addition of women students has been taken in small doses. Even now, only 30% of the students are women. Their uneasy presence, plus coed dormitories and steadily changing sexual mores, have taken some of the old frenzy out of carnival. This is not to say that Dartmouth...
...atremble with anticipation, scalpers are busy preparing hefty markups, to $225 or more a ticket, and the teams are mulling over old grudges. Predictably, the team that went into the tourney with the best record has wound up losing the event ten times in its 25-year run. The pain of defeat is not as great as it once was, however, since the N.C.A.A. recently has been inviting two A.C.C. teams...
...searing anatomy of pain is charted by Playwright Olwen Wymark, an American woman who lives in England, in Find Me, a drama about a disturbed young girl and her progressive deterioration at the hands of bureaucratic bumblers. While the key role is shared, Lisa Goodman is most affecting in suggesting the child's agony. In a totally different vein, suicide, adultery and attempted murder become almost folksy episodes in Crimes of the Heart. Playwright Beth Henley spins out a web of relationships among three Mississippi sisters, and, though the actresses (Kathy Bates, Susan Kingsley and Lee Anne Fahey...