Word: patheticism
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TO THIS END, John Hurt, as Winston, is also marvelous. Previously John Merrick in The Elephant Man and the fool in Olivier's King Lear, Hurt is the archetypal common man, his face a veritable roadmap of toil and suffering. His love scenes with the fresh-faced Suzanna Hamilton (Julia...
"On Feb. 10 I will be 58 years old, and it is thrilling to be asked why I am retiring, rather than why not," says Price, who has lost none of the stately, imperious glamour that marks the born diva. "There is nothing in the world more embarrassing, more pathetic...
The "t" in that pathetic record came last winter at Princeton, where Harvard pulled off a stunning 55 50 victory. Before then, the Crimson cagets hadn't beaten the Tigers at Jadwin since 1959.
So what if they have started out 7,0.1 and take on a pathetic Dartmouth squad tonight at Hanover? The 1982-83 Crimson started off by winning its first--well, only five, but a good five before losing at Cornell.
Unfortunately, Akalaitis' re-interpretation loses some of the values of Beckett's conception. Hamm, looking like a Rastafarian king on his throne, lacks the self-consciousness befitting lines like, "An aside, Ape! Did you never hear an aside." Even the phrasing of that line suggests a more cultivated mind, acutely...