Word: seared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ecstasies that may be found in death, martyrdom and love. He felt that the theater was strangling in words and could be reborn only through signs, sounds and the primitive force of myth. Above all, he wanted a burning intensity to be felt in the theater that would sear an audience: "The spectator who comes to us knows that he has agreed to undergo a true operation, where not only his mind but his senses and his flesh are going to come into play. He must really be convinced that we are capable of making him scream...
...patient's upper tooth. Feeling nothing, the patient relaxed and then, in an instant, realized the dentist was pushing harder and harder at the tooth. "My God, he's gone mad," the patient screamed to himself, as the dentist pushed and pushed, driving the patient up out of his sear toward some pain-embracing, nauseous state of being between ceiling and floor. He heard his tooth crack. "That's one," the dentist said. "Just relax," the nurse added. And the patient felt the dentist stitching the great hole in his mouth back together...
...frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line. His eyes are wells of mocking, melancholy torment that seem to see and sear every filmgoer in the house...
...Koch 1 0 0 1 Hoot'n 4 1 1 0 G'stne 4 0 1 0 Lord 3 0 2 2 Sh'ky 4 0 1 0 Hall 4 0 0 0 S'ski 4 0 0 0 K'gn's 3 0 0 0 Sear 2 0 0 0 O'Die 4 0 1 0 Wrght 1 1 1 0 Hous'n 2 0 0 0 Kenney 2 0 0 0 P'trs 3 0 0 0 St'pns 2 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals...
...instant she looked like a puckish milkmaid, the next like Ophelia going mad. The music was Schumann's cello concerto, a rapturous, heart-on-the-sleeve piece that was clearly intended to sear, not soothe, the savage breast. The cellist was Britain's Jacqueline Du Pré, who performed last week in Manhattan with Leonard Bernstein's New York Philharmonic. It was a performance to be seen as much as heard, for Du Pré couldn't sit still a minute...