Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...within a play, in which neither the passion of the revolution, of the marquis, or of the inmates seems to know any bounds, is particularly suited to the Mainstage. When Marat/Sade is performed this weekend with a cast of more than 40, its powerful "total theater" atmosphere might, in spite of the Marquis' conviction, have a dangerously revolutionary effect. Performances are tonight and Friday at 8, Saturday...
...spite of these weak links, the Leverett production carries Shaw's main point powerfully home. After the garden party when Higgins hugs all the laurels to himself, Eliza runs away to his mother's house. There they confront each other head on, finally recognizing their mutual lack of understanding. When Eliza, hurt and angry, says she will marry Freddy, Higgins answers "I'll wring your neck." "Wring away," Eliza says and the confrontation between Moynihan and Agush locks into place. But this time it is Higgins who yields. He realizes that she is bigger than the categories--poor girl...
...Forestry. It is surprising, then, that any serious effort is being made now to revive the Nutrition Committee. Yet it is not at all surprising when one realizes that the February decision to abolish the Select Committee was a case of the Senate cutting off its nose to spite its face, one of the biggest mistakes it made this year, and most critically, a gross injustice to the poor people of this country made in the interests of "organizational efficiency...
...basic industry argument is that in spite of a nearly fivefold rise in world oil prices since 1972, oil-company profits last year accounted for a smaller share of gross revenues than they did before OPEC began jacking up the price (4.7%, v. 6.4% in 1972). After-tax profits are admittedly huge-$14.6 billion for the industry last year. But so is the industry's cost of earning those profits. Last year's industrywide return on investment of 9.6% was not nearly as good as the automakers' 14.6% and barely better than the 9.5% earned by chemical...
...love showered on her by the enraptured James Morrissey (William Atherton), but the novelty of the contrast quickly wears off as the subjugation of Theresa becomes progressively uglier. She throws herself into cocaine-sniffing, prostituting herself for the thrill of the act, and blowing off Morrissey out of sheer spite. The schoolteacher identity is tossed away in the process, and while the plot occasionally returns to the classroom setting for a change of pace, the movie ultimately degenerates into an orgiastic display of violence and wanton sex that approaches the Dornographic...