Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fighting & Scratching. Hutchinson, a sad-miened, hot-tempered ex-Detroit pitcher, is delighted with his team's showing. "When we are not getting the pitching," says he, "we are getting the hitting. It's the best balanced team I've ever handled." Even so, nobody in the power-packed National League is ready to concede. "It's too early to hand 'em the flag," says Pittsburgh's Murtaugh. Predicts Pirate Trainer Danny Whelan: "The Reds will fold next month. Then either the Dodgers or the Pirates will move in for the kill." Maybe...
...Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next. Last week in London, preparing for its presentation next fall in Manhattan, Kopit's first-professional production reached the stage: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad...
...Gesell who makes Touchstone little more than a fugitive from the Old Howard. perhaps the production would have been improved by Mr. Kazanoff's trading roles with Tom Griffin, whose Orlando, far from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently an attempt to lend emphasis to a speech by wriggling one's body wildly...
...best essays in the book is Alas, Poor Richard, a sad but enlightening account of Baldwin's unhappy friendship with the late Negro Novelist Richard Wright. Like Wright, Baldwin tried expatriating himself in Paris. After nearly nine years he decided that he could go home again; Paris had taught him that whatever the atmosphere at home, he was irrevocably an American. And of his white fellow expatriates: "They were no more at home in Europe than I was." Unlike Wright, he knew that neither of them would have found Paris "a city of refuge" if they "had not been...
While a number of domestic comedies are on view, ranging from fair to sad the field at the moment is dominated by foreign films, most of them grim...