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Just to think that these pitiful men and women paid $200 each to be made fools of, by men who are neither afraid of the devil nor have any respect for God or man, but would exploit man and force him into actions of cruelty he never dreamed of.
Her husband, a grubby little librarian whose lifework is a thesis on an obscure medieval plumber, is the most pitiful and yet by all odds the most human of De Broca's characters. He knows very well that his wife is unfaithful yet he hides what he knows, partly...
For hours, the Amman radio had readied the nation for "an announcement of happy and private news." But when Jordan's King Hussein took the microphone, his tone was suppliant and defensive. "I have all my life, my brethren, hidden my worries, my problems and cares from you," he...
The story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings...
As Timur, Giorgio Tozzi brings so much sincerity to the part that I can only regret that he did not perform in the Metropolitan revival which I saw a few weeks ago. In his beautiful scene after the death of Liu, Tozzi evokes Timur's peculiar mixture of frustrated power...