Word: patheticism
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The lopsided score merely hinted at the humiliation of Italy's defeat. Not until the deciding first three matches were over did bumbling Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola cadge a single set from their relentless Aussie tormentors. The crucial doubles match lasted only an hour; Pietrangeli and Sirola won...
The iguana of the title is a giant lizard leashed under the veranda and clawing for its freedom-just as Shannon, the defrocked minister, is roped to a hammock during a mental crackup. Shannon and Hannah, the spinster, dominate the play, and break through to each other as they struggle...
John Kulli's direction of the Lowell House production has shrewdly encouraged the play's most endearing virtues--its consistently high level of wit and the fundamental ingenuity of a plot that covers the historical epoch of man twice. Tom Segall as Nathan is a ludicrously, wonderfully pathetic God; Art...
When Hamlet's mother sold herself and the throne for a pair of reechy kisses, all of Denmark trembled and sickened. It is hard to tremble at the revelations of The Rest Is Silence--partly because there was already something rotten in Germany before old Claudius was murdered, but more...
These impressions are intensified in the performances. Actress Page, an artist of unusual richness and motility, soon melts any sense of frigidity in the heroine with her glowing warmth and charm. And Actor Harvey, a player with the frigid fascination of a lizard, is clumsily miscast as the hotblooded hero...