Word: pompousity
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...axeman who can't stand the thought of head-chopping, and the bureaucrat who fills most every job in town, including officially checking up on his own corruption. This fellow, the Lord High Everything, is the best of the show, delightfully played by Thomas Whitbread. He is perfectly pompous, and his gift of timing makes even mundane lines amusing...
...knowledge of both his father and himself, Colgate Salisbury shows understanding and mastery of an important and intricate part. Between them, they bring the audience a father and son alike, desperately needing roots and a tangible grasp of life, struggling against the poisonous and destructive vanity of dreams. Inane, pompous, and deeply sympathetic, Gitter plays a Willy whose final grasp for something to hold in his hand still springs from an illusion, and is meaningless to all but Biff...
American Institute of Management's pompous Martindell gives the Roman Catholic Church a 50% efficiency rating for the 1st century while no evidence exists that this church existed then ... I wonder what the efficiency rating of Jesus and the first disciples would be like...
...Poets' Theatre emerge, if not victorious, at least impressive performers. Most of them are very skilled in delivering their lines clearly and without resorting to declamation. Edward O'Callahan, as the engineer, turns in the best performance giving his role considerable power and intensity. John Peters is appropriately pompous as Banderia, the promoter, while Edith Owen plays Marcia, Bandeira's "friend," with an acute feeling for the quiet sadness which the role demands. Gregory Lafayette skillfully keeps the rather intense college student from becoming annoying. The production also gains much from the direction of Edward Thommen, who shows real talent...
...earlier did The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, David Ross has scrupulously put Chekhov's intentions first: if he sometimes falters with so trickily delicate a play, he oftener succeeds. Chekhov's provincial tale of pathetically muffed chances and comically muddled lives, of a pompous fool for whom better people have toiled and a shallow woman with whom better men are infatuated, is wonderfully life-sized and life-stained. Compared to The Three Sisters or The Cherry Orchard, Vanya has little resonance or fragrance: it offers fly-specks rather than patina, flatted notes oftener than chords. Chekhov...