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The Dudley House production would be more aptly titled The Bar Mitzvah Party. Ben Schatz creates an Alceste who is petulant, insipid and obnoxious. He shouts too much, smirks unexplainably, and flounders in an oversized tuxedo like a Bar Mitzvah boy who hates the guests but doesn't want the...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Insincere Romantic | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

THIS YEAR'S contenders for LBJ's old Senate seat have spiced up their tired, worn-out rhetoric with a healthy dash of godless mud-slinging, perhaps hoping to arouse the state's sleeping voters. During the last few weeks, the studied, statesman-like poses originally struck by Republican incumbent...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Pissants and Pablum | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Patrice Dabrowski as the spoiled, malicious Mary Tilsford fares worse. Mary is a brooding manipulator, but Dabrowski plays her as a stereotyped bratty kid with stuck-out chin and petulant voice. While she sporadically succeeds at suggesting evil incarnate--especially in her scene with the frightened Rosalie--she never...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: The Puppet Hour | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

As Tuchman sees it, the noblemen of the time, including most of the rulers, were petulant adolescents. The French, who lost to England at Crecy in 1346, and at Poitiers ten years later, did so because they refused obstinately to understand that archers, who were not noble, could be effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to Hard Times | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

I get letters about petulant shipping heiresses all the time, and frankly I'm fed up. My advice is that Sergei should go down to Athens, grab Christina by the scruff of her attractive neck, drag her back to his mother's place and make her wash those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: Ms. Lonelyhearts Gets a Letter | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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