Word: abstractedness
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The congenital danger of such plays, of course, is a tendency to be peopled by talking heads rather than full-bodied characters, and Racing Demon sometimes does feel overly abstracted. But Brian Murray does a fine job of linking head to body: he plays, movingly, a homosexual priest who flees...
For Delacroix, this antiquity involved color, as for Ingres -- his opposite -- it did not. David and Ingres had given France a colorless antiquity, an abstracted classicism of white marble. What Delacroix got from the arts of Morocco -- woven and dyed fabrics, leather, tiles and pots -- was a sense of extraordinarily...
American Catholics -- and millions elsewhere -- understand that the church is simply out to lunch on the subject of birth control. If abortion is clearly wrong -- and it is -- the way to begin preventing abortions is to encourage contraception. Contraception sinlessly heads off the unwelcome pregnancy that might occasion the sin...
Even the dialogue seems abstracted, drained of felt emotion. Ira's immigrant relatives say book-talk things like "Woe is me" and "I would spit in his face, if I could but see him." Memories of his past have obviously obsessed Roth for most of his adult life, but he...
Even before the lights dim, it is clear this production dares its audience to understand it. The play's title is in part an obscure reference to the giant fungus in Michigan, and it's hard to pronounce. The program contains a pretentious page-long explanation of the play's...