Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know it's a very selfish drive that has made me play--to see if I can do it or not. If I do it, I strut around like a peacock...
...back on its feet. How Giamatti will manage to exploit his academic expertise is yet another question. He plans to return to the classroom in the near future, time permitting, but this tradeoff seems to be one of his most agonizing problems. It is not a purely selfish motivation--his students are his primary concern, but with all of Yale's financial problems, a balance will no doubt be hard to achieve...
...BRUTALIZATION OF Richard and Clarisse is no less disturbing. Teddy totally exposes Richard's selfish cowardice, intimidating him, wounding him with a pistol shot, and then molesting and threatening to rape his wife. Richard cannot bring himself to do anything but fume. When Clarisse finally explodes in rage at Teddy after his rape threat and demands that Richard stop him, Richard can only mutter that he might do something if she were raped. Their bond is shattered by the end of the play, as Clarisse makes it clear that she will be free of Richard's now groundless domination...
...performers all handle the roles quite well, which is a good thing because Wycherly's play has a tendency to drag in spots. James Horan gives a truly libidinous performance as the satyriacal, cynical Horner. Horan captures the selfish sexuality of Horner almost perfectly, though after a while the sight of him cramming his tongue down the ladies' throats is a bit much. Still, Horan copes well with the assignment Wycherly gives him; he is the satirical voice in the play. Horan would be the focus of the production were it not for Diane Venora's wonderful portrayal of Mafgery...
...Japan do more business in Syria than does Moscow. Assad is also trying to broaden his country's foreign political alignments. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, which Assad warned would be a fateful mistake, is still viewed in Damascus as an "outrageous disloyalty by a selfish man." Nonetheless, Assad privately tried to modulate the anti-Egyptian anger of such radical Arab states as Libya and Iraq...