Word: imogene
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...subsidized or not. If Congress cannot be sure whether a new bomber or missile will work before committing billions to it, how can some arts panel be sure that Anna Anybody, recipient of $15,000 for a photographic project, will go on to become the next Diane Arbus or Imogen Cunningham? And how can it know in advance what she will produce? It can't, that's how. No one's taste is infallible; some seeds germinate, others do not. And grants are not state commissions. A degree of waste is built into patronage, period. The notion of "cost-effective...
...king's daughter, Imogen, played by Lyn Wright, has a similarly meager repertoire of gestures. Furthermore, her flat delivery and stilted English accent can only irritate. When Imogen urges her servant, Pisanio, to "plunge thy dagger into the mansion of my love, my heart," the viewer is sorely tempted...
Bryant Weeks makes a fitting mate for the fair Imogen. He portrays the jealousy and frustration of the low-born Posthumus Leonatus by tossing his hair and groaning piteously...
John Christopher Jones is the one bright point on this relentlessly dull cast. As Cloten, the loutish son of the queen, he is an indecisive, brutish, self-contradictory delight. He does not make the mistake of trying to seem pathetic but makes his unrequited love for Imogen appear merely amusing...