Word: palely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casting failure persists all down the line. In the film the part of Nikos, the young scholar who takes Zorba with him to Crete to operate an abandoned lignite mine, was played by Alan Bates with a pale, perplexed intellectuality that was a perfect foil to Quinn's animal magnetism. In this musical's stunted version of the part, John Cunningham acts like a graduate-school grind...
Most of the performers just hang around, hoping that Lawrence, Lee, or Herman might throw a bone their way. The usually redoubtable Milo O'Shea can't do a thing with the pale Sewerman, for example. And when O'Shea can't breathe life into a script, that's a sure sign the script is dead...
...been one of the most remarkable in the Senate. He switched parties in mid-career and upset his own state Democrats by endorsing the 1966 Senate Republican candidate, having broken with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam. Oregonians have wearied of his maverick ways. In debate, Morse seemed a pale shadow of himself, while Packwood appeared to be the aggressive Morse of old. Packwood organized superbly on a block-by-block basis, promised to pay more attention than Morse did to Oregon affairs...
...Cordelia is appropriately sweet and good; Patricia Elliott as Regan and Marilyn Lightstone as Goneril are properly serpentine. Only Stacy Keach disappoints, by failing into smirky stage-villain mannerisms as Gloucester's bastard son Edmund. His performance misses the point of Shakespeare's transcendent vision which makes earthly villainy pale before the terrors meted out to men by fate...
...quivering of wings inside me, life's complaint, the wea' rebellion of the mind. Soon, scattered to the four corners of the earth, self-forgetful and self-forgotten, I am the wind and within it, the columns and the archway, the flagstones warm to the touch, the pale mountains around the deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world." Yet, despite this lyrical sensualism, it was Camus' beiief in an intellectual revolt (after facing "the absurd") that most renewed...