Word: patheticism
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"Opera doesn't reject me. The real world does," laments one of the characters in Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata. This rather pathetic but poignant observation marks the sadness at the core of this funny play, now in production at the The New Repertory Theatre.
Each moment, from Willie's pathetic scheming about his girlfriend to self- denying Raffi's declaration that he is secretly "Laurence Olivier's lovechild" to Javier's strikingly forgiving meditations in his wheelchair, seems at once the dramatic high point and the pivotal piece of evidence in explaining this deranged...
Calling the bill "pathetic" and "disgusting," Leib said that Question One was an imposition of the majority's values on the minority. "It all has to do with somebody's ideals and it makes me really angry," Lib said. He said that he will go out of state to buy...
Yet Stiller's most brilliant creation may be Michael Pheret, a smarmy Hollywood agent who in a recurring bit is seen giving insipid career advice to real-life celebrities like Roseanne Arnold and the rap group Run-D.M.C. In his compulsive blabbering -- a cascade of fawning hyperbole and whatever...
Gov. Bill Clinton did mention (a number of times) President Bush's veto of the Family Leave Act, but all three candidates had pathetic answers for the questions posed about women and minorities working closest to them. All three should be able to name without faltering the women and minorities...