Word: tantruming
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...billion Chinese people are not be bullied." With that harsh rejoinder, Peking's official New China News Agency recently went out of its way to lambast a Wall Street Journal editorial that called on the Reagan Administration to "stop cringing every time Peking throws a tantrum," and give more help to Taiwan. Some Americans, an article by the New China News Agency said, believe that China is "a piece of cake to be sliced as they please...
...decision clicits a tantrum from young Brooke. Her slightly older consort, though, reacts with far more maturity--he sets fire to Jade's house. Many people think the desire of landlords to collect insurance money leads to most arson: statistics prove, however, that thwarted young love is, more often than not, real cause. When he tries to rescue Jade from the blaze he almost dies. He is then sentenced to several years in a state psychiatric institution. The names in this story have been changed to protect the innocent. But that isn't the end, unfortunately...
...away away the entire plot? So that you won't go to see this film. Not only is the outline weak, but everything else is too. Brooke (who--the film's one saving grace--has never looked more beautiful) pulls off only one scene credibly--throwing a screaming, kicking tantrum at the news that her human vibrator is now off-limits. One senses that she has had much practice with scenes of this sort. Hewitt is even worse. He doesn't seem to have even a little evil in him, even wearing the three-day growth of stubble that clings...
...college dropout, shows up and is equally delighted. After a lifetime spent working at factory jobs he hated, Dad is finally enjoying himself. The only one unhappy about all this is Mom, who fears that her husband of 50 years has become a stranger. She throws an extended tantrum. Before too long, Dad is back in the nursing home. Tremont mourns: "He's gone, totally, completely gone." Giving up at last, Tremont packs Billy into a car and drives cross-country. His destination is Philadelphia, where he grew up, and yet another sojourn with his past before going home...
Moliere wasn't throwing an artistic temper tantrum; as Vreeland would say, literary elegance backed up his refusal. Most producers have preserved the play with an almost awesome regard to the culture and values of the 17th century. Richard Wilbur broke with tradition by translating Tartuffe into English, but many producers still cling to the idea that the rhyming script demands delivery in a dusty package. The Boston Shakespeare Company's production has, in some ways, smothered Tartuffe with theatrical kitsch, motivated, it seems, by concern with maintaining the ill-conceived authenticity...