Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social commitment of Christians, even if it carries with it risks." A contrary view came from Colombia's Bishop Dario Castrillon Hoyos, secretary- general of the Latin American bishops' conference. By embracing hate and violence, he warned, "some lines of liberation theology have generated some very sorrowful and very sad fruit...
...otherwise utopian atmosphere of the castle is spoiled by the affair of Lance and Jenny; she cannot resist his physical prowess. This second act is comparatively heavy due to the sad unraveling of Arthur's ideals, but the acting compensates well. Korn is a mystified but never self-pitying king and the two lovers generate a high reading on the steamometer. The rest of the east is consistently supportive, but generally better at clownishness than solemnity. Mordren (Jon Tolins), Arthur's wicked illegitimate son, is especially adept at delivering bitingly sarcastic lines like "Ah, Camelot--where the King gives freedom...
...SAD TO SAY, this strategy backfires. Brustein's carefully planned theoretical blueprint of the play is sabotaged by shoddy acting in several key roles. The chief blame rests with D'Aquila, whose mannish, histrionic performance never musters an ounce of sympathy. Her love affair with Alsemero (Harry S. Murphy) is discarded too early; and she changes into an evil murderess with only the slightest provocation, gushing at one point, "I am forced to love thee now for thou provides so well for mine honor...
White was not suprised. "Robert did a great job because he got pressure from the strong safety, and Joe Connolly did a great job getting into the endzone," he sad. "The play just makes a lot of sense. It's great call and it worked...
...faintly sad piping of a calliope, a pair of new extremes have cast unusually shaped shadows across the face of sport, causing it to break out in a smile of unexpected dimensions. One is a basketball player of 7 ft. 7 in. but just 208 lbs., the other a football player of 308 lbs. but just 6 ft. 2 in. Since their sideshow duties extend to the legitimate arena, neither is an Eddie Gaedel, the baseball midget of 1951 with "a strike zone barely visible to the naked eye." But both are Primo Carneras from boxing's '30s, outsize attractions...