Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING LEAR. In the finest performance of his career, Lee J. Cobb plays an almost unplayable role with consummate skill, infusing his portrayal of Shakespeare's king with an all-involving humanity. Cobb's Lear lacks something of the necessary majesty but is totally convincing in the sad scenes of madness. Director Gerald Freedman elicits beautifully modulated acting from the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. Philip Bosco as Kent stands out in a supporting cast that truly supports...
Jesus and Shelley. Sinclair's writing was long-winded, his naivete often distracting, his fiction more polemical than literary. He was a vegetarian who lived on brown rice, fresh fruit, celery and dried milk. He never smoked or drank (his temperance tracts were inspired by the sad example of his father, an alcoholic whisky salesman). He dabbled in spiritualism...
...after several pink gins to joke about their cargoes of "birth-control pills"-or ammunition. "You only need one of them, mate," a pilot chuckled. All the pilots have one thing in common-they fly to get a stake. "I'm only in it for the money," one sad, balding man told me. "I've got a wife and five kids and I want to put a down payment on a house in Salisbury." Another Rhodesian had a second motive: "That Harold Wilson is a bastard. He's against Biafra and he's buggering...
Pantagleize--Michel de Ghelderode's farce to make you sad. At DUNSTER HOUSE...
...Chairs & The Lesson--Two Ionesco one-acters, one sad and one funny. At WHEELOCK THEATRE, 180 The Riverway...