Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also finds space for an elderly immigrant's recollection of Ellis Island: "Din, confusion, bewilderment, madness!" There is a memorable sting to his words about the Supreme Court. The Justices, he writes, "have proclaimed the right to keep blacks and whites apart on trains and then, decades later, proclaimed the right of blacks to sit with whites on trains ... They had interpreted the letter of the Constitution to say ... that the individual's rights are imperiled when an oil company gobbles up its competitors...
...creates a Beatrice who is a wonderfully consistent, three dimensional person--an all too rare accomplishment for an amateur. But, tragically, her Beatrice is not the person Zindel wrote, and this throws the production off balance. She is too low-key, too gently humorous. She doesn't bite or sting, and doesn't build up the bitterness that brings her to cry at the end of the play, "I hate the World...
When Stewart Stern wrote Rachel, Rachel for Miss Woodward, he displayed a gift for biting dialogue and for transforming ordinary situations into sequences that carry a sharp sting of recognition. The same ability is repeated here, notably at a family funeral where the mourners try to hide their dislike of one another. Gilbert Gates directed I Never Sang for My Father, an underrated film that was also about family tensions. He shows himself once again to be an unpretentious director with a talent for worming himself to the emotional core of characters and scenes...
...when they heard our voices, they came hurrying down and asked us to have dinner with them." Joined by Nixon Friend Bebe Rebozo, the young people dined with the Nixons, discussed the day's events and then put matters aside to watch the latest Paul Newman movie (The Sting). Most tantalizing of all the weekend's events is the picture Julie draws of the President on Saturday evening summoning the family to explain why Cox had been fired, an explanation Julie adroitly declined to pass along. "When he writes his memoirs, he will explain...