Word: swoon
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...more fatal cunning. Things would go badly with Quixote had he survived to tilt with Greb; they went equally badly with one Patrick Walsh of Kansas City who opposed him last week in Atlantic City, for 41/2 minutes. Bewildered and bruised by many Sailings, Walsh fell into a swoon while the referee counted...
...South Seas) ; 2) Helen Hayes-Cleopatra encourages the advances of George Arliss-Old English; 3) Robert Armstrong-Pugilist grows passionate with Lenore Ulric-Carla; and 4) Pauline Lord-Amy falls for Holbrook Blinn-Don José, until Joseph Schildkraut-Cellini enters and kisses each lady into a swoon...
...happens to be at Seville. Almaviva fails to obtain the lodging, but manages to give Rosine a note. After he has gone, Bartholo accuses Rosine of having received a note from him, and threatens to use force to procure it. Rosine denies having such a note, and pretends to swoon, not however, before she has placed a note from her cousin in her pocket in place of the one received from Almaviva. Bartholo takes the note, and discovers his blunder. He apologizes to Rosine, and leaves her alone to read the note from her lover...
...with perfect naturalness. Especially in the highly emotional scenes of the third act, where the slightest over acting would have been fatal, he was free from any ranting, and never lost sight of the artistic limitations of the part. By his excellent acting he relieved the artificiality of the swoon scene, which is perhaps the greatest blemish in the play...
Phenomena which deserve consideration are those of breath, shadow, reflection, sleep, swoon, sickness, wounds and death, Two facts, interesting in their analogies and contrasts, bear upon the subject, namely, the states of waking and sleeping, and those of life and death. In both sleep and death, something seems to go out from the person, the difference being that in death the something that goes out does not return. Furthermore, when the sleeper dreams of the dead, the explanations of dreams and death confirm each other. As to the nature of that which seems to go out, there are several groups...