Word: poignant
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...deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan. But the poignant question was whether Kerrigan would be in any shape to train for the event. Her father said the close-knit Massachusetts family was in shock. Her mother said...
...particularly poignant moment occurs duringa scene in which Cyril and Shirley have taken atrip up to Highgate cemetry to visit the grave ofKarl Marx. Cyril starts lamenting the erosion ofindividual freedom, anticipating that "by the year2000 there'll be 36 television stations 24 hours aday, telling you what to think." At this veryinstant the couple are engulfed by a crowd ofstereotyped Japanese tourists, chattering andsnapping away furiously at Marx's statue withtheir telephoto lenses. The sequence provides acommentary on the futility of protest in a worldof mass production and mass-communication. TheBritish don't like change, but somehow we willeventually...
...affectionate memoir of those days, is that this manic style of writing, which he vividly recalls in conversation, is never really seen onstage. The play, which opened on Broadway last week, will delight Simon fans who yearn for the days when he wrote to be funny, without the poignant self-analysis that has enriched such late works as Broadway Bound and Jake's Women. For those who admire these later plays and think he found in them his great theme -- the making of a writer and the moral conundrums of using one's most intimate relationships as "material" -- Laughter disappoints...
...production, by Jon Jory, the artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, needs polishing. Most scenes are cinematically brief, but the scene changes are long and noisy. Both acts end with poignant, diminuendo remarks that plainly do not strike audiences as a climax, so applause, although sustained, is painfully slow in coming. While Anne Pitoniak's Du is a tonic blend of folksy approachability and rigid religion, Julie Boyd's Keely seems far better educated and statelier than the beer-loving bar veteran and blue-collar knockabout sketched in the text...
...musical's book, written by Scott Schwartz '95, details the coming of age of Merlyn, the magician of British lore. Instead of focusing on one or two more poignant developments in Merlyn's life, the story myopically unfolds as a collection of unrelated and uninteresting events. Unable to affect the structure of an epic, Schwartz overdevelops the plot to the point at which it collapses, losing foundation. The plot lacks any long-term coherence, for Merlyn's mission in life changes from scene to scene. There is no one clear goal, no one definite crescendo which the audience can anticipate...