Word: patheticism
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Perhaps as incendiary an example of this revisionism as Brustein has ever offered is the A.R.T.'s current Three Sisters, a production by Rumanian Director Andrei Serban that transforms the customarily lugubrious Chekhov portrait of a doomed family into a knock about farce. Actors pout like children on a...
"If she cries, how can I laugh?" muses Mauro. "After her menopause, maybe." The brother's and sister's confrontations are at once amusing and pathetic in their pettiness. In one scene, as Mauro types. Marta in the kitchen drums her fingers to the rhythm of the keys. Little by...
Steel, as a sculptural material, is imperfectly expressive. It has never been fully able to suggest the pathetic. But it is a marvelous substance for embodying optimistic energy, the direct flow of feeling into untormented substance. All of Smith's best sculpture is an object lesson in what scale...
"I didn't know it was a bat at first," said Jess I. Parks '84, an employee at the circulation desk, adding that "it looked pretty pathetic just going back and forth."
In its first incarnation, as a 1979 release titled Head Over Heels, the piece aspired to be a more conventional comedy. The series of pathetic entanglements led to the very inevitable--and in the context of the film--very unlikely Hollywood happy ending. This merging of the cynical undercurrents with...