Word: patheticism
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Perhaps such a man should never have had a daughter. Simenon hints that D. made a sexual advance toward Marie-Jo during the child's eleventh year; when the book was published in France, D. sued successfully to have two passages making this charge explicit suppressed. Whatever the facts...
She is also very gifted. For Carnelle Scott, the orphan and reformed town tart whom she plays, is a daffy simpleton. Seeking redemption and identity by becoming Miss Firecracker at her Mississippi home town's annual Fourth of July celebration, she could easily become shrill in her eccentric quest...
"Compared with previous years, I'd say they are pathetic to apathetic." --Elaine M. Kistiakowsky
"Compared with previous years, I'd say they are pathetic to apathetic," Kistiakowsky concludes.
James Reston Jr., a journalist who chronicled the Jonestown story in his 1981 book Our Father Who Art in Hell, collaborated on the drama with Trinity Artistic Director Adrian Hall. The result is a some times unwieldy mélange of docudrama, sociological argument, fragmented monologues and musical interludes. This...