Word: questings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode illustrated the grueling pace of the Democratic race. For months, Carter and his opponents have crisscrossed the country for up to 18 hours a day in quest of the 1,505 delegate votes needed to win the nomination; as yet no candidate seems headed toward a decisive edge. After...
Last Monday, 18 undergraduates gathered in Boylston Hall to recite from Beckett, Malcom X, Peter Schaffer and the anonymous author of a Middle English Ballad--among others--in their quest for Harvard's premier prize for oratory prowess...
...they find themselves funny, they should not be disappointed with the show. Mark O'Donnell, taking his cue from the stuffed crocodiles over the Pudding's mantel, manages to change a repugnant beast and a vicious sport into a joke. Tots in Tinseltown mocks elitism, the quest for social position and the opportunist money-grubbing that buys such status. O'Donnell's game is played by the Peabodies and the Woolworths, who cavort on stage, singing "We went and bought ourselves a lot of mystique..." The audience--Pudding members, patrons, and impressionable followers--love it. They clap and laugh...
...literary classics rather than from the contemporary American scene. His technique, like Tom Stop-pard's in Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead, is to abstract well-known characters from their original dramatic setting and place them in an absurd world where they toy with the conventions of language, and quest--unsuccessfully, of course--for the meaning of their existence...
...publicized battle and stayed, although this fight is not the subject of the film. It is difficult to ascertain what the subject of the film really is, or the reason it was made. The Maysles brothers have al ways been inveterate seekers after the phantom of documentary "truth." This quest has been hampered by the peculiar insularity of their vision and by its glib spontaneity. In Grey Gardens they do not mean to be cruel to the Beales, al though they are. The movie has some slender justification as a piece of psychological reporting, about the ways two people rely...