Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballroom scene in Act 1 in which Bothwell (sung by Barry Busse) and his soldiers watch awkwardly as Mary (Ashley Putnam) and her courtiers dance stately pavanes. Infuriated by the perfumed elegance, Bothwell strides forward and belts forth a rough Scottish reel. The roistering tune and sinister tremolo accompaniment overwhelm the lutelike Renaissance melody of the dance-and the musical battle foreshadows real ones to come...
While stopping short of supporting New York loan guarantees, Busbee agreed that "fire and brimstone regionalism" must not be allowed to overwhelm national economic policy. But sectionalist pressures are growing fast. At least six associations of elected officials and regional experts have been created by Northern states during the past 18 months alone. The largest: the Northeast-Midwest coalition of 204 Congressmen, headed by Massachusetts Representative Michael Harrington, which seeks legislation favorable to industrial states. In newspaper ads proclaiming THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN, Michigan has called for a Great Lakes area "common market." Busbee in turn has been telling...
...unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge of it made Mr. Earnshaw ill." When such awkwardnesses of her own creation threaten to overwhelm the story, L'Estrange keeps things moving by simply brazening through. She produces a page-turner rather than art, but she does not drag Wuthering Heights into blithering depths...
...beauty underline the basic structure of life there: the songs predict the day of liberation, and friendships are based on recognition of a common struggle. But they also keep the play from becoming a simple polemical statement. politics and art usually do not mix well: often, the individual stories overwhelm the politics, or the politics overwhelm the subtleties. South Africa is not all that subtle a situation; the problem that artistic efforts to describe it must avoid is that they can become completely flat, presenting the situation without involving the audience. Soweto has been in the news a great deal...
...Events overwhelm the play, breaking its continuity and interfering with its principle missions, the intimate portrayal of a complex and intriguing political personality. Adopting the overused one-man show approach, playwright Dore Schary pays too much attention to minor historical incidents during the Roosevelt administration. He fails to provide the character with the breathing space so essential for success in what has become a tired and formulaic format. As Roosevelt discusses his presidential years, he shifts abruptly from event to event, changing subjects and moving through time too quickly. As a result, the play fails to fully achieve the dramatic...