Word: patheticism
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Anna played by Linda Sugin, is the symbolic presence that inspires the trio's journey backwards. Sugin is good as the pretentious, provocative pal but in her performance is inconsistent. Anna is both an eerie intangible presence and also a real woman who comes to visit her old friend and...
In addition to the confusion about time, there is the problem of Shylock. King imbues the role with a range of interpretations, making the character truly come to life. He is evil and sly when he demands his "bond." pathetic and desperate when he calls for "revenge," and a maligned...
What made the assassination of the proud but vulnerable Mrs. Gandhi particularly pathetic was that it was committed by members of her bodyguard whom she had continued to trust against all warnings. The so-called disciples of India's revered Guru Nanak, contemptuously basking in foreign shelter in Western...
Belle-Linda Halpern, who plays Charlotte Corday, the fiery young woman who stabs Marat to death is at the same time a groggy somnambulist who can barely wield a knife: she shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic...
The world is a wormy place in the seven satiric novels of A.N. Wilson. The deadly sins flourish there, as do those lapses of character and taste that can turn a serious life into a pathetic farce. At 34, this precociously wise and productive British writer has pierced the intimidating...