Word: madwoman
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...actor in feature films, 1956-81, including Four Girls in Town, 1957; A Time to Love and a Time to Die, 1958; Imitation of Life, 1959; Psycho, Spartacus, Midnight Lace, A Breath of Scandal, 1960; Romanoff and Juliet, Tammy Tell Me True, 1961; Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967; The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1969; Pussycat Pussycat I Love You, 1970; History of the World, Part I, 1981; special adviser to secretary-general...
Right-winger Allison Mleczko was an offensive madwoman on Saturday and a huge headache for the Big Green, tallying two goals and two assists. Mleczko's offensive surge was not a first for the junior who hails from New Canaan, Connecticut...
...Phyllis, Sarah Burt-Kinderman progresses nicely from vain air head to vamp to madwoman. Her sarcastic banter with Bishop in the play's first scenes has something, appropriately enough, of Katherine Hepburn's archness. She is especially impressive in the rape scene, where Phyllis' revulsion and hysteria are truly disturbing. Even in the play's worst scene, in which Phyllis recalls a nightmare about fat men in skirts which comes dangerously close to moralizing about sexual intolerance, Burt-Kinderman is effective and at ease...
...cast of seemingly peripheral minor characters contribute to the play's macabre atmosphere. Sarah Burt-Kinderman gives a particularly strong performance as Vee Talbott, the local madwoman or divine visionary, depending on one's frame of mind. The town gossips Dolly Hamma and Beulah Binnings (played by Charlotte Nicklas and Sarah Lohrius) are the eerie creations of a society in which people live in "solitary confinement," fearing their own sexuality, ashamed of their very humanity...
...With a madwoman--who may not really be crazy, though everyone tells her she is--a conniving old woman who screams "Oedipus" with every word to the squabbling heirs, Suddenly sounds like a soap opera set in Rappacini's garden. There's even an implied castration...