Word: unkindnesses
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President Clinton tried out some new material on Jan. 25 at the Alfalfa Club's private dinner--an annual opportunity for Washington power brokers to wine, dine and be deliciously unkind. Some off-the-record excerpts...
...mobility. According to Fuentes, they never experienced an equivalent of the Middle Ages, when permanence of station was the only expectation. Thus, American ambition for power leads to nothing but jealous destruction of any and all who are in high positions. It is hard to criticize Fuentes for his unkind look at the United States during the early 1970s; the McCarthy era is not a period of which we can be particularly proud...
Just 19 years after Barbra Streisand's remake of A Star Is Born opened to unkind reviews, fans of the 1954 original (or, indeed, the 1937 original original) have another reason for dismay. ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Sunset Boulevard) intends to stage his version of the old classic. To the relief of many, however, he will use Harold Arlen's songs from...
...Stratford's little boy doesn't paint a universally pleasant picture: some of Shakespeare's gloomiest assessments of humanity and its condition appear in As You Like It. This play gave us "All the world's a stage..." and "Blow, blow, thou winter wind,/ Thou art not so unkind/ As man's ingratitude." As it turns out, the court's corrupt and indolent; the countryside tiresome and uncouth...
...dear sir, man is an island, and stands alone to face the twists and turns of unkind fortune. The same goes for woman. Would that it were...