Word: arcadias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s and '80s, but he made a comeback in TV movies. DIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, the Disney animator who first drew Jiminy Cricket; in Arcadia, California. Kimball began his Disney career in 1934 and was part of the team that designed a more expressive Mickey Mouse. He also worked on Pinocchio, Fantasia and Mary Poppins. DIED. JOACHIM EGON FUERST ZU FUERSTENBERG, 79, a member of one of Germany's oldest noble families; in southwestern Germany...
...numbered scenes in Arcadia are set at an English country manor in the early nineteenth century. The even-numbered scenes take place in the present at the same estate, Sidley Park, where bickering historians attempt to reconstruct the story of what happened in the other scenes. Arcadia is an extended rumination on love, sex, history and entropy that revolves around discussions of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, Byron's poetry and the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in England. That Arcadia is not exactly an accessible work did not bother the audience...
...baggy sweater, Nightingale a tailored three-piece suit and elaborate facial hair. The production's selection of properties, which range from a brace of hunting pistols in the past to a humorously situated liter of Tanqueray in the present, rounds out the immense visual appeal of this Arcadia, the fact of which is quite an accomplishment for director Patrick Demers precisely because the play is so centered on words...
...Nonetheless, both sets of scenes build admirably toward the last scene, where past and present play out simultaneously in a beautifully directed finale that leaves little to be desired from the production as a whole. It is easy when reading Arcadia to suspect that the best production would be the most transparent, putting the least distance between the audience and Stoppard's words. Demers' Arcadia provides a sound and satisfying refutation of this notion, supplying a set of rich visuals and excellent performances that make this production nearly as sensual as it is intellectual...
...ARCADIA...