Word: pietas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dinger's Fool, Richard McElvain's Kent--clearly got the word from Cain to "be loving," to be tender, to fit his interpretation of the play in the program notes. They hug each other a lot, hold each other's arms, "are supportive," as the psychologists say; they form pieta-like tableaux of familial affection. There's little wrong with that, and it might make a valid production of Lear someday, but all the actors--not just the nuclear family--would have to work towards realizing it, and the director would have to apply it with a consistent hand...
...esque pique is genuinely frightening, but somewhat inexplicable. Just as suddenly as he began, Teach stops, becoming apologetic. With all his bravado dissipated, he becomes pitiful...but why? The motivations remain cloudy, and so the ending, which features a confused Donny cradling the slightly dented Bobby in a touching Pieta pose, is ultimately unsatisfying and vaguely weird...
...MADMAN who stands in front of the Pieta with a hammer in his pocket isn't alone in wanting to go down in history. Presidents can feel the urge with equally disastrous results. Richard Nixon's need to keep the tapes was his downfall, and Gerald Ford's last grand gesture, proposing statehood for Puerto Rico, was his last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when...
Jesus (Stanley Ferryman) is mute throughout the musical, but as he is brought down from the Cross in a sculptured pieta, his body speaks the moving language of anguish. Dual aspects of Mary's character are depicted by Salome Bey and Mabel Robinson. An electrifying showstopper is provided by Delores Hall, who seems to be AWOL from the heavenly choir as she sings I Love You So Much Jesus. That is really what this luminous show is all about...
...incomparable work has been happily restored," Pope Paul VI declared proudly last week as he unveiled the Pieta to the public once more (center). A 15-ft. wall of nonglare, bulletproof glass now shields the Madonna from her admirers. But behind the glass, insists one Vatican official, is a masterpiece that is "still the work of Michelangelo, not of the restorers...