Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arranged it, he who has staged it, and he who stars in it. But Madden, now garbed in gray, tells Bolingbroke, "Here, cousin, seize the crown," and beckons with a finger. On yielding up the crown and sceptre, Richard's hands tremble and his voice stutters. In short, Richard the Actor has failed; and this is unacceptable. Still, Madden does strike straight to the heart in his outcry, "Mine eyes are full of tears; I cannot...
...matter how tense the situation, he comes off with his delightful cracks." In the view of Madame Hervé Alphand, wife of the former French ambassador and one of the most noted capital hostesses, he was entirely outgoing. "Zat Abe," she once commented, "he dances with all the girls?long, short, fat, and thin...
Thus during the magnificent song 'As it was before,' which goes in part "And you sell yourself so short every time/You look at her and never dare to cross the line/Why is it so hard for you to understand/We'll never make it far beyond the gate without each other's hand." singer Peter Gowan barks and whimpers to the accompaniment of the drums and the organ, finally breaking into Indian chants over-but not within-the music...
There are other kinds of humor-such as giving the actors makeup and music from the Mack Sennett era-and the whole conceit might have made a delightful short. Much too hour an is it of minutes...
...novel-perhaps the only story of an alcoholic ever to succeed at the level of tragedy rather than self-pity -revealed in Lowry a dark, obsessive genius that kept struggling for light. It never shone fully in his two other novels (Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic), his poems, or in the short stories (Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place) that up to now have constituted the slim remainder of Lowry's published work...