(La Rocco) 'Mayday Mayday' (closes on Sunday) In this amiable if insubstantial solo show, the British actor Tristan Sturrock, who starred on Broadway in "Brief Encounter," recounts his recovery from a harrowing accident in which he broke his neck.
(Brantley) 'Mayday Mayday' In this amiable if insubstantial solo show, the British actor Tristan Sturrock, who starred on Broadway in "Brief Encounter," recounts his recovery from a harrowing accident in which he broke his neck.
And compared with the new economic powers in the city, the clubmen were, in fact, insubstantial by then.
States have only a negligible interest, if any, in having insubstantial claims adjudicated by their courts, particularly in the face of the strong federal interest in vindicating the rights protected by the national labor laws.
He falls heavily, the crash drives an elbow into his side, he collapses.... stretched at full length in the insubstantial twilight, the unconquerable doing the impossible".
'I want to paint the beauty of the air around them
to grasp the intangible.' Atmosphere, vapour, air tinted with smoke: he registers the slightest nuances in this insubstantial world between him and the object.
And during those difficult times of loss and pain, to assert "this is the mixed package called life, and I embrace it in all its positive and negative aspects" shows real courage, rather than hiding in flickering, insubstantial fantasies of control, mysticism, virtue or wishful thinking.
Yet far from being the admired figure that his work of the 1950s seemed to promise he would be, he was regarded in the art world, to the extent he was noticed at all, as a has-been, a self-repeater working in an insubstantial, out-of-date mode.
