Word: petulante
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Many runaways appear to be weak, immature women whose flight is really a petulant plea for more understanding. In fact, 50% of runaway wives eventually go home on their own or are easily found because they have failed, more or less intentionally, to cover their tracks.
In Old Times, his famous pauses seem to be toothless gaps in the text. They indicate not minds and hearts too full for words, but too empty and too weary to go on. The actors mask the play's anemia beautifully. Rosemary Harris' Anna, in particular, is a...
Fop to Martyr. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Richard II is a journey of inner transformation. As Prince Hal moves from tavern playboy to patriot King, so Richard moves from self-indulgent fop to martyr. Chamberlain accomplishes this with masterly gradations. His early Richard walks with a kind...
$650 a Month. The party split has ideological overtones: the Cleaver wing denounces the Newtonites as insufficiently revolutionary. Among other things, Newton has worked to disassociate the Panthers from Weatherman, a move the Cleaver faction views with dismay. But behind the argument is a personality clash and a power struggle...
Would that the film makers had Chief George's ingenuousness or Hoffman's technique. For Calder Willingham (End as a Man) has provided a scenario that begins with robust rawhide humor, turns to profundity−and then collapses into petulant editorial. In the era of occupied Alcatraz, surely...