Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...groundlings, and we who are the heirs of the methods can provide Marlowe neither with actors nor audience ready to accept him on his own terms. Still, Maguire's martial bearing and lush voice mask his inadequacies well enough to let the play move ahead without much tedium. Maguire never plumbs any of Tamburlaine's sensitivity in the great soliloquy of Act Four, nor, most disappointing of all, can he overcome enough of his own refinement to be the "scourge...
...Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown) prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...
...Loren) and daughter (Eleonora Brown), prove that in World War II Italy, only those who suffer can love. La Dolce Vita is a sprawling, formless masterpiece of modern Rome's spiritual depravity and sexual excess, and L'Avventura is another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...
...Avventura (in Italian). Another endless but masterly dissection of the malignant tedium that grips contemporary Italy's empty-souled profligates...
...Ravel Piano Concerto, but just such ability makes the woodeness she impressed upon it all the more disappointing and inexcusable. This concerto is poetic, humorous and extravagant, substituting flair for profundity; without great liveliness and feeling (and Miss Burke lacked them) this bit of diversion becomes little but tedium...