Word: patheticism
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When he begins to talk of his career, he loses the poise and tough-minded agility with which he confronts Vietnam. "I want to win Academy Awards and do great things on the screen," he says. There is a desperate, almost pathetic, eagerness to do "significant motion pictures" with the...
Much of the show's popularity was undoubtedly traceable to its carnival aspects. Children, especially, delighted in watching Len Lye's kinetic Flip and 2 Twisters, stood entranced as three giant loops of steel jumped and jiggled for 15 minutes at a time. Adults, too, joined in the...
Marilyn Pitzele, Harvard's Rosemary Harris, at first fascinated you with her acting tricks -- she walked in a funny bowlegged waddle, she talked in an impeccable lower class accent, and she wept like a little girl who wanted attention very badly. But her performance was so consistent and thoroughly thought...
Gowon is like a toddler trying to sweep out a room with a big broom-amusing and slightly pathetic. -Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu
Running would not skim along as effortlessly as it does if the cast did not slalom through the comedy with such dazzling grace. Martin Balsam, in particular, can be wacky, pathetic, puzzled and convulsive in sequence. Whenever Playwright Anderson's comic invention turns paper thin, Director Alan Schneider unfurls...