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Word: starcrossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S plenty of sobbing and sighing in this Romeo and Juliet. The performers seem determined to convince the audience of their genuine emotions in this most well-known and well-worn of tragic love stories. But as the "pair of starcross'd lovers" move through their familiar story on the Hasty Pudding stage, a curious feeling spreads through the theater--that the show is a farcical shadow of Shakespeare's play. The actors try to sink themselves into the pure emotion of the story and pay no attention to the words they...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wherefore Art? | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

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