Word: patheticism
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The Taste of Power traces a Communist tough's devious path to a cell at the top, first as a hard-drinking guerrilla fighter, then as a brutal apparatchik. Mňačko weaves a picture of a pathetic, subhuman instrument of an inhuman system that ultimately traps...
Such official visitors as 91-year-old Konrad Adenauer have had to wait until 10 p.m. for private tours. French newspapers and magazines are filled with articles on "The Short and Pathetic Life of a Persecuted Monarch" and "Was King Tut Really a Woman?" L'Express depicted De Gaulle...
Mod and hipsterism came out of a drug dream heading for a star. But Gilbert's beautiful people use them as gimmicks to gain recognition and buy style, even if it is mass-produced. As the parties go on and on, the beautiful people become more pathetic than a middle...
Genovès' subject is the individual pinpointed by the camera in the middle of a crowd. Relying for inspiration on sheaves of photographs and films, he creates shadowy monochromatic canvases filled with silhouettes of dozens of tiny people running, fighting, pathetic, but defiant. Sometimes, beneath the shadow of...
This summer, Vivien will play Lady Macbeth opposite Paul Scofield at Stratford. Films scarcely interest her. She appeared in Alfie, playing the frumpish, pathetic housewife who gets an abortion, and she has a role in the forthcoming Pinter adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's novel, Accident. But that is the...