Word: suitoring
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...your viewing comprehension, Komachi is a 99-year-old hag who, as a heartless beauty some 80 years before, had refused to yield to a suitor unless he paid her a visit every night for 100 nights; on the 100th night, he died from frustration and expectation...
...Mishima's play, a drunken poet (Tracy Cronin) encounters Komachi (Jennifer Graham) in a public park and, after a long, strange conversation that transports them back 80 years, finds himself repeating the suitor's role and painful death...
MISCASTING MARS TWO important roles. David Schrag as head jailer ("and assistant tormentor") Wilfrid Shadbolt valiantly stumbles and smirks his way through his path of comic relief, but the darkly cherubic actor simply looks too young to be taken seriously. A suitor of Phoebe and a conspirator with Point, his adolescent countenance distracts the audience from an otherwise entertaining effort. French as Elsie suffers from a corresponding problem; more than any of the other non-students in the show, French is just too old for her part of "a maid of 17." Possessing the production's finest voice...
...agreement with Tisch probably makes it safe from a takeover bid like Turner's, which was to be financed largely with borrowed money. But the network could still be vulnerable to a cash-laden suitor. Though Tisch insists that his CBS investment is long term, he likes to sell as well as buy if the price is right. Less than four months ago, he sold the Loews chain of movie theaters, one of the original cornerstones of his company, for about $165 million...
Julian's presence at the usual Thanksgiving dinner of turkey that no one likes to eat in the first place is at least a relief from the resigned monotony of the traditional family gatherings. While the yuppie suitor is ingenuous in his quest to become a permanent guest at the "real" old-fashioned dinners he envies, Tyler has no pretensions about the claustrophobia bred by such intimacy. Beneath the respectable bourgeois values lies a barrenness that has decayed even the excitement of sex. Macon's instinctive response to the dogtrainer Muriel's aggressive passes is the urge to confess that...