Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the dramatic vitality of Getting Out is undeniable, the play is partly an index of an indecipherable malaise in the society from which it springs. In an admittedly sickly theater season, many of the plays that have received the most critical acclaim and a generous measure of audience acceptance have been about the dying, the grotesque, the brutalized and the desolate. The Elephant Man, winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, features a freak who is mon strous, if also in eloquent human pain. Whose Life Is It Anyway? mounts a torch...
...with a vagina?" She has appeared on the cover of Ms. with Editor Gloria Steinem's endorsement that "she crosses the sex/race barrier to make every reader understand the political and intimate truths of growing up black and female in America." Some blacks have also joined the acclaim. Novelist Ishmael Reed (Mumbo-Jumbo, Free-Lance Pallbearers), for example, says that Wallace has brought "cool clarity to a subject about which so much frenetic and feverish nonsense has been written...
...that if this and other applications seem suspect, that is not a justifiable reason for dismissing catastrophe theory altogether. The theory's lasting acceptance may have to await the development of mathematical techniques permitting more extensive applications and better predictions. Just as Newton's mechanics did not receive immediate acclaim, they maintain, neither should catastrophe theory's dubious reputation at present be seen as a sign of its ultimate success or failure...
...Dexter's record with modern opera is extraordinary--his Dialogues of the Carmelites and Billy Budd exemplify how best to present modern operas with narrow appeal. But his productions of standards from the nineteenth century repertory, like his curious Rigoletto, have infuriated audiences. Levine's conducting has gained undeserved acclaim in the press. It's forceful, direct, and intractably unsubtle; Levine takes scores and homogenizes them. Furthermore, at a callow 35 he is attempting to conduct everything in the repertory from Mozart to Berg and Weill...
Rice, a teleplay writer and movie critic, gained significant acclaim for "Best Friends," an original production for public T.V. She presented "The Fat Film," another of her produced scripts, at the beginning of the discussion last night...