Word: successful
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Switching political parties, Whitmore has selected Theodore Roosevelt as the latest launching pad for his talents. The one obviously essential ingredient for success in "solo" theater is an interesting character, and T.R. certainly fills the bill. The old roughriding, jingoistic trustbuster provides exactly the right mixture of eccentricity and believability to captivate an audience from the moment he chaotically and humorously enters from the back of the theater to the time of his inspiring exit at the play...
...1930s is a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty, and Monroe Stahr, boy wonder, is at her service. Stahr's business is making pictures, transmuting the dreams of Depression-deadened America into vendable celluloid. His is an Horatio Alger story with an F. Scott Fitzgerald twist, a saga of material success rooted in romantic illusion. For a while, Stahr can have his cake and sell it too; but the crisis comes when he tries to shape his own life in the image of the movies by snatching happiness from an ill-fated love affair. For Fitzgerald, success and illusion...
...structure of movie romance on an unromantic reality. His mission has been that of the artist, to bring order out of the chaos of everyday life. Kazan and Pinter have similarly attempted to give cinematic order to Fitzgerald's muddled work. If their mission has not been a complete success, their failure, like Stahr's, has at least provided the pleasure of romantic illusion along...
...drip with gore and gush. Did you know that the Russians may have been behind the recent "cold wave" which paralyzed half of the U.S.? That a C.I.A. clerical error cost President Kennedy his life? Or that Toni Tennille, who is apparently a "singer" of paramount ability, attributes her "success" to fate...
Harvard played ten matches in the league, finishing 6-4, but several clubs dropped out in mid-season, making the experiment a partial success at best...