Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the actors had their moments, they really had them. The physical grappling that ends Act II crackled onstage with John's frantic self-doubt scraping against Carol's assaulted dignity. Kaye's daringly quiet, remarkably pointed reading of Carol's plea "Will somebody please help me?" cast a perfect pall over a notoriously uneasy intermission...
...orchestra and always looked somewhat out of order when coming onstage. There's a heartrending scene in Act Three, for example, in which the duke's toadies block Rigoletto's entrance to their lord's chambers, kicking the poor hunchback until his angry recriminations collapse into a pitiful plea for the return of his daughter. It's a moment that can move one to tears; yet here it looked so stagey that it failed to resonate...
...addition of Internet stations and CD-ROM games. A free showing of Independence Day would bring a big surge in attendance, too," she jabs. But in fact, she does not want to replace Danielle Steele with Virgil. Tisdale's is not an argument for Great Books; it is a plea for silence...
EVITA Defying their Vice President's plea to boycott, Argentines flock to First Lady's resurrection on film...
...least 50 complaints alleging that Cohen, a former Florida state representative, made improper sexual advances to minors dating back to 1972. In 1992, after being charged with one count of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment and two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct, Cohen accepted a plea agreement and was given 15 years' probation, which "prohibits his association with minor children for any purposes." A judicial hearing on whether he has violated his probation, scheduled for last Friday, was postponed. Cohen is asking the judge to reduce restrictions on his ability to leave the state without the court...