Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant Eastern view of a fallen woman, who rises by union with nature, rather than by struggle against...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant restatement of the timeless truth that a social problem is a moral problem, which can only have a religious solution...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant restatement of the timeless truth that a social problem is a moral problem, which can only have a religious solution...
...cronies in a pub, and suddenly all Dublin floods onstage to sing that he's a Daarlin' Man, and hoist him on its shoulders. The intimate numbers are best. An Agnes de Mille solo, powerfully danced by Juno's doomed son (Tommy Rail), makes a poignant moment out of the life-destroying blight of Ireland's "Troubles." Two lovers' laments, One Kind Word and For Love, affectingly sung by Loren Driscoll and Monte Amundsen, highlight a Marc Blitzstein score that is more thoughtful than tuneful. Stars Douglas and Booth have the skill and charm...
...petty militarism. He is used as a guinea pig by a doctor (Bass Karl Doench), a sadistic, fanatical embodiment of science. Finally, he is betrayed by his sluttish mistress Marie (Soprano Eleanor Steber), and he stabs her. Wozzeck himself drowns trying to recover the discarded knife. In a poignant last scene, their child (Alice Plotkin) trots off, unaware and innocent, on his hobbyhorse to view his mother's body...