Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposed to be 35 at the time of his suicide. The surrender of youth to failure is part of his tragedy. Gielgud adds ten years to Ivanov and unavoidably softens the character's desperation. The confession of a man of 45 that he is turning gray is not poignant, but standard...
...wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this throws the play out of emotional kilter. Leighton is poignant as only Leighton can be: her sky-blue eyes hold rain. But Williams plays his mood music of longing and loneliness by rote...
...must see American policy as an almost poignant attempt of good men to make a better world possible," he said. "I think they failed...
Under Director Stuart Burge, the supporting cast is pallid. Frank Finlay's Iago is a meager adversary in all respects. Maggie Smith plays a resolute and poignant Desdemona, though her open, clear-eyed virtue ought to vindicate itself as easily as Iago's obvious machinations condemn him. As Cassio, Derek Jacobi seems a snub-nosed, undergraduate type whom no lion among men could seriously consider a rival...
...Cold Blood is a minor national epic, illuminating many affecting portraits--allowing to share young Nancy Clutter's poignant diary: "Summer here. Forever I hope"; to witness the shock of her boyfriend's agony, by which an adolescent learns adult numbness; to be harassed by the posturing gruffness of Holcomb's postmistress: ". . . the sane thing to do is to shut up. You live until you die and it doesn't matter how you go--dead's dead": to appreciate Mr. Clutter's Midwest-pastoral dream: "an apple-scented Eden"; to wince before the senior Hickock's A History...