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...President, who occupied the White House for the shortest (elected) term since Warren Harding-and who had a problematic tenure, very much a learning process and a mixed bag of one fiasco and many missteps and some accomplishments-should be thus elevated, by the force of his presence, his vivid charm, to the company of the greatest Presidents, as if the inspirational power of personality were enough for greatness. Perhaps it is. Many Americans make the association. Yet what sways them is in some sense the strange coercive power of the martyr, Kennedy's great vitality turned inside...
...current Dunster House production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof let the words of their characters speak for themselves, and by doing so they arouse our fascination in their relationships. Under the brilliant direction of Kevin Jennings, the actors submerge themselves in the plot and use the sharply vivid language to reveal their characters' mental anguish and desperate attempts at making some sense of their lives. Mounted in the small, dimly lit Dunster Junior Common Room, the play is set on the same level as the audience. The proximity of the actors to the audience is mentally as well...
...letter, Alex wrote that Beirut, with its shanties and vivid street life, reminded him of Juárez, his border-town birthplace. The family left Juárez when Alex was five; but his mother remembers that as a baby there he would throw a fit whenever she washed his hair. That does not seem long ago to his parents. Says Jesus Muñoz: "He was still like...
Danton's impact is lessened when the film is robbed of its university Nevertheless it is an important thoughtful meditation on revolution and unfliacting idealism. Wajda's humanism ultimately transcends national interests and to tyrants everywhere he sends a vivid reminder that within four months of killing Danton Robespierre too was sacrificed to that implacable god, the revolution...
Autry thus became the most vivid symbol to date of the seemingly endless legal confusion and complication that have characterized attempts to carry out the death penalty since the Supreme Court revived it in 1976. Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked...