Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Cow Is Our Mother. Against such popular appeal, the snarling Communist and the colorless Congress Party candidates who opposed the Maharaja stood little chance. But the Maharaja had a few Tammany-style tricks up his sleeve as well. "In Bombay," he told his audience, "Congress is permitting the erection...
The village priest, Don Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you...
There were plenty of technical problems, including the theoretically fatal one of an all-male cast. Billy Budd, the innocent young sailor who represents good in the allegorical struggle with evil, stands in sharp contrast with the wicked Master-at-Arms, Claggart. But Captain Vere had to be "tidied up...
The first-night audience was on Page's side almost as soon as the curtain went up. She had engaged top Spanish Designer Antoni Clave to do the sets, and he had turned out some breathtaking ones in melodramatic black, blue and crimson. Then the Gypsy Azucena (Sonia Arova...
The Brattle's stock supporting cast is adequate, but suffers in comparison with Devlin and Miss Ford. The one exception is Paul Sparer as Macduff, who alone makes the tragedies of the just seem pathetic as those of the wicked.