Word: petulante
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Bush's running mate has avoided the gong for now, but Quayle's early response to questions about his military service and other matters was wobbly and defensive, like a fifth-grader trying to explain his missing arithmetic homework. When reporters accosted him at his Virginia home while he was...
Daisy Miller, only shriller. That's how European filmmakers have often pictured the American woman. In Luc Besson's The Big Blue, Arquette has to whine, pout, plead, giggle, all to get the attention of an otherworldly deep- ( sea diver (Jean-Marc Barr). But he has eyes only for dolphins...
The actors do well with this deadpan satire. Standouts are Cate, whose Mommy is both childishly petulant and sexually aggressive, and Bledsoe, whose delivery punctures Albee's pretensions as well as those of the other characters.
I feel sorry for the show's seven talented actors, who are called upon to play universally unlikable characters. In Act Two, they all switch roles (some switch sexes), and although the characters have aged so much since Act One that they are essentially different people anyway, the actors as...
Thesiger did not return to his birthplace until 1930. Haile Selassie, a friend of his late father's, invited him to attend his coronation. The feudal pageantry of the occasion has been described with condescending vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly...