Word: relished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strangely, the return to militancy created an atmosphere that both the Israelis and the Arabs seemed to find easier to live with than the ambiguity of the period following Sadat's initiative. The Palestinians were returning to their traditional role with undisguised relish. Said a top P.L.O. commander in Lebanon: "There are no rules any more. The only answer left is in our gun barrels...
...songs of madness and delight, all about spies and mercenaries, traitors and lost lovers, spooks, werewolves and other halfway creatures of the night. Quite characteristically, his "excitable boy" shows up in the title cut (co-written with Marinell) transformed into a raging madman, whose exploits are chronicled with sardonic relish...
...something edgy and vindictive in the spirit of contemporary society that causes young American playwrights to relish scenes of abrasive confrontation. The duel may be one of words, the sly techniques of a psych-out or blunt violence. All three tactics are present in Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter, now at Manhattan's Public Theater. The setting is a police station during the midnight-to-dawn shift. Two dope addicts, Simon (Laurence Luckinbill) and Jimmy (Alan Rosenberg), who are also homosexuals with bisexual experiences, are pushed into the bleak room in handcuffs. They have robbed...
...pitch songs. William Hurt, her awkward military suitor, is sensitive and attractive in the scenes where he tries to shield Verna from the horrors of battle. The other members of the U.S.O. show, a fraying torch singer and a has-been Catskills comic, are performed with oldtime show biz relish by Sally Kellerman and Howard da Silva. Verna's troupe is the kind of company that gives the small screen the illusion of depth...
...said it better than the grumblings of any critic; "Rolling Stone sells out: The 10th Anniversary TV Special." The magazine had gone the way of so many other children of the Sixties, but with a difference-Rolling Stone was now flaunting its hip capitalist style with relish. Yet this exercise in electronic self-promotion by a member of the print media might have been excuseable if the two-hour birthday show had at least amounted to a competent rock history documentary. Instead, the hapless viewer witnessed grating excesses of Felliniesque imagery accompanied by watered-down renditions of Beatle standards...