Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minahan is stunning as wide-eyed, wide-grinning Georgie, who doesn't know the meaning of the word "sidelines." A driven man, he is always sympathetic in his relentless hungering after the lights of Broadway. When Minahan is on stage--which is most of the show--he is absolutely riveting; the excitement he projects virtually swallows up all the other characters. It's an amazing feat, especially since Minahan, though a capable dancer, sings with more vigor than melody. In the end, though, the supreme conviction he brings to his role is what counts...
...hostages they must take when their plans for a quick getaway are foiled. The crooks don't want to kill, the hostages don't want to be killed, and so they are leagued against those forces of law-and-order whose job it is to keep a relentless pressure on the surrounded bank...
Plath reads her poems with a relentless intensity. She seems to hurl her words at the listener, each elegantly rounded vowel like a trajectory for a gunshot-sharp consonant. Just as she tried in her poetry to use her craft and skill to "manipulate intense personal experience"--as she says in an interview included on the record--so she uses impeccable diction to give a defining framework to the raw, brute emotion in her voice...
...that the condition of his parole barring him from resuming union activity until 1980 was the result of a deal between the White House and the Fitzsimmons leadership; no one in the Nixon White House ever denied it. To hear one Teamster official tell it, even Bobby Kennedy, the relentless prosecutor of Hoffa, made quiet appeals for Teamster support in his 1968 race for the presidency on the eve of his assassination...
...chief of the nation's Communist Party. The accessibility and volubility of Portuguese leaders contrasts sharply with the remoteness of government officials in his home base, Franco's Spain. There, he plots appointments for interviews well in advance and finds that "covering politics in Madrid is a relentless search for holes in the monolith...