Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who still don't care who killed Roger Ackroyd, all murder mysteries look pretty much the same. A corpse is uncovered early. Midway through, a prime suspect emerges, only to develop an unshakable (or is it?) alibi. At the climax, a recklessly brave detective confronts the cunning culprit and somehow elicits a confession. Any detours along this well-traveled route are apt to involve the jiggery-pokery of disguises, coincidences and undisclosed facts. To aficionados, however, the mystery is not one genre but many, and similarities of plot are far outweighed by differences of setting, texture and world view...
Many who are cynics about the Clinton presidency and its agenda seem to think they deserve some sort of prize for their refusal to succumb to hope, as if this were a particularly brave or difficult trick to pull off. In fact, there's nothing easier than maintaining a cynical, opposition stance. After all these years, we liberals can do that in our sleep...
...characters resemble their textual selves. Padilla's Miranda captures the naive schoolgirl, gushing effusively in the face of her "brave new world." Two actors, Blanca Hovey and Alice Ristroph, following timehonored technique, divide the role of the spirit, Ariel. Their petulant, childish rendition fit the bill perfectly...
...Cabot production of The Tempest fail not only to pull off their grand ambitions of reinterpretation and "contrapunctual texture"--they fail even to fulfill the basic demands of drama. So the endless time and effort necessary to put on a play all go to waste. If you decide to brave the rains to see The Tempest, be prepared for a wet fish...
SOME FUTURISTS LOOK FORWARD TO this brave new world, forecasting a burst of creative programming for niche audiences and a withering of mass-audience pap. George Gilder, in his book Life After Television, raves that the new technology will "liberate our imaginations from programs regulated by bureaucrats, chosen by a small elite of broadcasting professionals and governed by the need to target the lowest common denominators of public interests." Other seers are as depressed as Gilder is sunny. "I worry seriously about a world in which it's too easy to simply flip around the dial and think...