Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have visions of John Lindsay, downtrodden and in rags, standing before the main gate of the Pentagon accosting the President as he enters and leaves: "Pardon me, Sir. Could you spare a little change... just a billion or two. My city is starving...
...oppressed women of Cambridge, is the time to strike out against such bourgeois traditionalism. For those of you are still unenlightened, go see How To Make A Woman at the Caravan Theatre and find out how downtrodden you really are. The lot of the female is not to be envied: thrust at birth into a machine which twists and represses her, grinding ever onward toward that great goal of FEMININITY. At the end of adolescence she is vomited out with hair tortured into curls, and a body either Nutramented or Metricalled to suit fashion. In short, she is prepared...
...help a man back to health as it is to go out to the Goodyear plant on the edge of town and make a good tire," Stamps says. "So far, it hasn't recognized that. People who work with people-the most precious product in the country-are downtrodden everywhere...
SENELICK uses the conventional style but he restricts it to one group of characters, primarily the downtrodden landlords, Raevskaya (Marilyn Pitzele), her brother Gaev (Bro Uttal) and their adopted daughter Varya (Janet Leslie). The style becomes part of the dramatic action of the production. It is a hot house aristocratic style of life and acting; constantly undercut on one side by a rude bourgeois frankness (played with 20th century realism) and on the other by a broad comedy, which is often the symbol and mockery of unclutered peasant bumpkinry...
...true: Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave are not female reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. At first blush it must have looked like a great idea-Lynn is a great big broth of a girl whose eye-batting optimism thinly masks a steely and ruthless ineptitude; Rita, with the wispy, downtrodden look of a disgruntled rodent, is obviously born to be picked on. Moreover, the girls did awfully well together in the comic moments of 1964's The Girl with Green Eyes...