Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIGHT YOU ARE, like Scandal, centers on a group of gossipers, but in Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, its effects are tragic and destructive. A handsome production...
...needle into the vein and threads a thin polyethylene tube (catheter) through the needle into the bloodstream. The needle is then removed, the catheter taped down so that it will not pull out, and the flow of fluid continued as long as required. Occasionally, however, this procedure can have tragic complications...
...intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railway." One of Hat's high points is a wickedly malicious monologue on the art of olive-stuffing, in which he reduces the mystique of bullfighting to the noble, tragic grandeur of a pimento impaled on a cocktail pick. On those exceedingly rare occasions that Donald Swann opens his mouth, he can be equally and extravagantly nutty-as when he remarks on infant care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs...
...tragic queen, comedian and clown...
...Yerma is no-barren. It is her husband Juan (Frank Langella) who is sterile - and doesn't want any babies around the house anyway. An old crone offers her son as an inseminative agent, but Lorca cannot let Yerma commit adultery because he intends the play as a tragic stalemate between honor and instinct. Surrounded by women who take a sensual delight in their fecundity, poor Yerma is reduced to beating her breasts and moaning, "I feel two blows of a hammer here instead of my baby's mouth...