Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic, skeletal dialogue, Joseph Losey directed...
While the current off-Broadway production is dimmed by a few too many pregnant pauses, it is graced with the poignantly melancholy gravity of Kathleen Widdoes' performance as the governess. Italian garb makes the characters seem oddly distant as if they had been translated along with the text. Naked attests to a quickening theatrical interest in Pirandello, marked notably by the Hartford Stage Company's Enrico IV and the APA Repertory Company's Right You Are If You Think You Are. The themes of loneliness, isolation and alienation were all carved out by Pirandello with consummate craft...
...telltale rash of German measles (rubella) can come and go unseen during a night's sleep. In fact, the disease is generally so mild that a nationwide epidemic of it three years ago caused no panic. An estimated 30,000 pregnant women were among those infected, however, and rubella can wreak tragic damage in unborn children. For one of every two rubella babies, that damage includes at least a partial loss of hearing. "The deafness we are seeing now-the aftermath of the epidemic-is more severe than anyone anticipated," says Dr. Fred Linthicum Jr. of the children...
...woman who had just returned to the Chilean capital after a few years abroad. At a reunion of her convent school class, she looked around at 30 classmates, nearly all of them married, and got a "What's wrong with this picture?" reaction. None of them were pregnant, though most of them had been pregnant at the previous reunion five years before. "It suddenly dawned on me," she said, "that they were all on the pill...
Abruptly, Accident whirrs into a lengthy flashback, detailing the events that led to the tragedy. Bogarde is an aging womanizer who has backed comfortably into pipe-puffing middle-age. Outwardly content, he is actually bored with his life and his pregnant wife, and yearns to recapture his vanished youth in an affair with Sassard, an Austrian princess. She, however, has two far more successful suitors. The first, an agreeable adolescent aristocrat (York), becomes her fiance. The other, a university tutor (Stanley Baker) who seems to have a postgraduate degree in seduction, becomes her lover...