Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shortcomings of Pajaczkowski's Faustus are thrown into sharper relief by the masterful performance of Greg Landis as Mephistophilis. The embodiment of controlled torment, Landis remains sympathetic even while hissing damnation. When the memory of his own loss of grace moves him to warn Faustus of the devil's snares, Landis projects a dignity never fully attained by his victim...
...withhold the material on the grounds of Executive privilege. The Secretary, visibly upset and reacting strongly, said he regretted the committee's action, declaring it raised "serious questions all over the world about what this country is doing to itself and what the necessity is to torment ourselves like this, month after month." One of his top aides reported that Kissinger is feeling increasingly embattled and isolated, and is irked that the White House is giving him a minimum of support in this latest, potentially climactic clash between Congress and the Executive...
...happy a man to sing pain. A man who started his career back in 1962 and is just now cresting as a star, certainly deserves happiness. But most probably the crowd was too happy--happy getting it's money's worth from good music--to listen to pain and torment. In any case, the catharsis of Jimmy Cliff's music was lacking: the program was too easy and the audience too comfortable. "We sing a happy melody," says Jimmy Cliff, "but it's sad underneath." After peace and love was accepted and thrown back in approval, he (swallowed in dimming...
...FROM the experiences of the 28 celebrities who were interviewed for The First Time, relief and disappointment are not uncommon reactions. "My God, is this it?" Nora Ephron thought to herself after losing her virginity in a Harvard dormitory. "Is this what I've been going through all this torment about?" And Clifford Irving's first thought after his first time was, "That was lousy. I've got to fuck someone else." Perhaps it's just one of the facts of life that sexual initiation is a drag. Nevertheless, the subject continues to hold a certain fascination, whose power...
...Devere is not ready to project that torment, and Christian fares no better. Nor has Director George C. Scott, Van Devere's husband, been able to elicit from the rest of the cast that sense of transcendence through suffering by which alone O'Neill's lesser texts can be salvaged...