Word: soliloquys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles cop embarks on a dark soliloquy: "If I don't have a piece [a gun], I feel naked. That's why I became a cop, I think, because I got to carry a piece. In Nam, killing was a job, you look at somebody like a piece of hamburger. I just feel like telling someone who's bothering me, 'You know, I could blow your ass away.' I walk away ... What the hell am I doing here? I don't think we lost. Am I weak? What did I do wrong? I did my job ... The concrete we laid...
...Sagan a chance to tell the story of the evolution of the universe and the beginnings of life in his inimitable cadences: "Fifteen billion years ago, the universe was without form. There were no galaxies, stars or planets. There was no life. There was darkness everywhere." When Sagan's soliloquy ended, said a reviewer, 100,000 teen-age listeners must have vowed on the spot to become astronomers. One thing is certain: Sagan captivated Carson, who kept inviting him back for further appearances. Indeed he became such a frequent guest that students would greet his return to the Ithaca lecture...
...Patrick brims with the newly-found sexual energy (she is in the midst of her first period) of a frustrated 4-H girl who wants to be an auto mechanic in Baja California. Patrick displays exquisite timing and movement in this portrait of innocence giving way to restlessness--her soliloquy to the empty refrigerator rings both poignant and hilarious...
Good joke. Much laughter?and no time to think about any confessional implications this line may carry, since the performer immediately launches into a rendition of Richard III's soliloquy, accompanying himself on a pair of "tuned chickens." But the fact is that what Peter Sellers told Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show may be as frank a public statement as he can make about himself. It reveals his profound fear that the real Peter Sellers, at 54, is virtually a cipher, that he has no personality and that he will either not be able to find or will...