Word: slenderly
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...center of a slender and increasingly metaphysical plot are broken troths, gay and straight, and the socially rich yet emotionally solitary life of Roy Cohn, the lawyer and dealmaker who denied his homosexuality up to the moment of his death from AIDS...
...working life: about nine years. But since it aims to present the deceased as the black Chatterton of Postmodernism -- the "marvellous boy," cut off in his prime by a drug overdose at the age of 27 -- it more resembles a parody of a funeral rite, performed over a slender talent encased in a sarcophagus grossly too large for it. There had to be room in that box for the 1980s as well...
...Lula of my vision of the play I wanted to put on. But Leland doesn't criticize me for a casting error, if she believes it to be such, but instead, launches into a fairly vicious personal attack on Cohen for not being a thirty year old "tall, slender, beautiful woman with long red hair hanging straight down her back..." as if Cohen had any control over her personal appearance and also as if her physical appearance had any direct correlation to her acting ability. Leland's "virginal 17 year-old" line is just unwarranted, and, in my opinion...
Part of the problem is her physical presence on the stage. Instead of the "tall, slender, beautiful woman with long red hair hanging straight down her back" Amiri Baraka describes, Cohen is slight and much shorter than McNeal...
...light, he stripped off his clothes, trying to erase the disgust and guilt instilled in him as a child. However, this act was slightly spoiled by our haunting certainly that he might not have been so ready to bare his childhood "shame" if he had not had such a slender, youthful, muscular body to take pride...