Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landlocked ship of fools. Among the passengers are a flint-eyed scout (Robert Mitchum), a pioneering couple (Richard Widmark and Lola Albright), a frightened newlywed who alternately freezes and teases her husband, a Negro slave-not to mention a crowd of teenagers, old folks and other essentials of the wayward western...
...Despite wayward lighting and some shaky scenery, all eyes remain on Amy Singewald in The Madwoman of Chaillot. And when the evil people are banished from the world, when pigeons fly again, air turns to crystal, grass sprouts on pavements, and perfect strangers hug each other, the shaking scenery seems part of the celebration...
Trying to resolve the contradiction of his heart and mind, Russell has found words of some nobility: "Three passions have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair...
...Taste of Honey may sound like a documentary on wayward little people in the big city. But it's not that grim. Shelagh Delaney brings everybody on and off-stage to music. She cuts out hunks of time -- scenes glid into each other instead of stumbling along in supra-realistic connection. The characters are an articulate crew; they put each other down without stuttering. Their bitchy banter is as satisfying as a good dogfight...
Like most musicals, the show has many fathers. Christopher Isherwood wrote the plot first as a novella, Goodbye to Berlin. John van Druten adapted it in the 1951 Broadway hit I Am a Camera, with Julie Harris playing Heroine Sally Bowles, a girl as wispy, wayward and vulnerable as the smoke at the end of her jaunty cigarette holder. A still different set of foster parents put their mark on Cabaret. It is a montage of the bloatedly satiric cartoons of George...