Word: patheticism
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It must be obvious that this is an uneven play. Director David Lelyveld has exploited the excitement of his situation to the utmost but too often he succumbs to touches of purest melodrama. The basic cause of unevenness, though, is Gardner himself, who is by turns eloquent, windy, perceptive, funny...
No Bikini. At 39, Curtin has the rare good fortune to be as talented an actress as she is a singer. Her Violetta in Traviata is rendingly pathetic, her Cathy in Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights surgingly passionate, her Mistress Ford in Otto Nicolai's Merry Wives of...
His real objection, wrote Critic Taubman, is thematic. He finds no fault with plays that honestly and openly deal with homosexual themes and dilemmas. What worries him is that all too often, homosexual playwrights, in deference to the public's preference for normality, seem to be writing about heterosexuals...
Mulligan was extremely handsome as Brown, and this quality greatly enhanced a role that, if played by an archetypically ugly bourgeois gentleman, would have fallen flat. His plodding was that of a sincere man, not a machinator, and his final self-destruction becomes all the more pathetic. As for Dion...
Ishi belonged to a small tribe, the Yahi, who lived in the scrub-tangled foothills of volcanic Lassen Peak, high in the Cascade Range. Early Spanish and Mexican settlers had little contact with the Yahi, but the gold seekers who flooded California in the 1850s hunted them down like wild...