Word: soliloquys
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Mary's opening soliloquy also reveals the quality of her family's life: "one-night stands, cheap hotels, dirty trains, leaving children, never having a home." In the first scene that Edmund and Tyrone enter, his fatal disease and his father's drinking is made apparent, as is Jamie's unwholesome dawdling in the barrooms and brothels uptown...
...anyone who thought the doyen of Washington power brokers was either pitiable or defenseless was quickly disabused of that idea last week. At a hearing before the House Banking Committee, which is investigating links between B.C.C.I. and First American, Clifford gave a forceful 90-minute soliloquy in his measured baritone, serving notice that proving him guilty would be a prodigiously difficult task...
Unfortunately, Mulford abandons her experimental staging as the play progresses. During the second half of Hamlet, each speaker delivers their monologue while stiffly positioned at center stage--this technique effectively destroys the innovation that Mulford had promised the audience earlier. Hamlet's famous soliloquy is rendered by a subdued Alexander Pak, the emotional impact drained by static staging...
...that sum, theatergoers get the patented English-musical mix of romance and melodrama, soliloquy and strife, all bound up in an unsurpassed spectacle. Seen through the eyes of two Vietnamese characters -- a pimp and hustler of irredeemable cynicism called the Engineer (Jonathan Pryce) and a woman of unquenchable faith and optimism called Kim (Lea Salonga) -- the narrative fuses a crude soap-opera plot with subtle satire of relations between capitalism and the Third World. Big in cast (45), emotion and physical sweep, the story ranges from the neon vice bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades...
...page of the New York Times last week, an independent television producer named Adam Wolman published an ambivalent soliloquy about himself and the draft: "I know none of us has the luxury of clinging to pacifism in this world; I know it's not right to reap the joys of living here (or anywhere) without earning my keep . . . But I just can't see myself over there with a gun. I can't see myself running away either. But believe me, I'm thinking about...