Word: patheticism
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Unfortunately, the team may need a little more help after posting a pathetic 1-13-2 record following Christmas break last season. The loss of Alex Dumas and Owen Hughes creates difficulties as well, since they combined for a total of 30 points and a strong blueline presence.
I'm not sure if maybe she forgot to see the play or maybe she knows little about human emotion. Whatever the case, Colapinto's Macbeth was not begging us for pity, as many actors cast as Macbeth do. His Macbeth is confused and frustrated by his fate. He gives...
The real excitement on this little EP, however, comes with the next three tracks. Together, they are smart, varied, powerful and uncompromising. At first, "As If Your Life Depended On It" seems to be a condemnation of used women in the vein of Hatfield's rant "Supermodel." However, an intricate...
Interspersed throughout this dramaless drama are scenes of Mick's idiosyncratic revenge, his growing doubt (jeepers!) about Gabby's claims of rape and his unerotic tryst with Judy. Gradually, a hilarious irony unfolds: Mick, the most over-touted character in the book ("Meaningless violence was not his style" or "Running...
Freundlich invokes the Chekhovian in both his unsentimental depiction of each family member's half-comic, half-pathetic weaknesses and his deliberate avoidance of a cinematically neat closure. Unfortunately, his script falls short of making the characters sufficiently three-dimensional to earn our empathy. We really learn only one or...