Word: wistfullness
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A procession trudges along the service road of American history, looking distinguished and wistful: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, George M. Dallas, William King, Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Levi P. Morton, Garret A. Hobart, Charles W. Fairbanks, Charles Dawes, John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, Alben Barkley . . .
Bush, vindicated beyond the imagining of most war leaders, delivered an emotional speech that brimmed with a pride entirely justified and a self- congratulation that was almost wistful. He urged on the nation the idea that "Americans are a caring people. We are a good people, a generous people . . . We...
The cast members are persuasive individually but not yet as a family, although that may come with time onstage. As the matriarch, Irene Worth, 74, lives up to her legendary reputation. But the play belongs to Mercedes Ruehl as Bella. With unrelenting energy, she veers from Gracie Allenesque comic illogic...
In other words, neither the actors nor Mazursky, whose gift for portraying middle-class muddles (Down and Out in Beverly Hills) is unquestioned, achieves the kind of confident relationship with their material that Goodman and Ward enjoy. Goodman is terrific in his big comic set pieces (notably a decorum- shattering...
THREE SISTERS. Terse, scatological David Mamet and wistful, musing Anton Chekhov make a far from obvious marriage, but after successfully adapting one of the Russian's short stories and Uncle Vanya, Mamet and his Atlantic Theater Company take on a masterwork at Philadelphia's Festival Theater for New Plays.