Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...juxtaposition of these two stories as stage adaptations is a brilliant stroke of dramatic creativity, and the result is an effective representation of Gogol's strange genius. The cramped plainness of Leverett's D-entry basement (cleverly dubbed the "Gogol Space" for this production) is well-utilized in both pieces, first as a basement room heaped with junk for the adult storytellers to use as props, then as a cell in an asylum...
Despite the initial skepticism of relatives and friends, the Lovatts' experiment gets off to a brilliant beginning. In quick succession, four healthy children are born. Over Christmas and Easter vacations and during the summers, the house overflows with in-laws: "People came and went, said they were coming for a couple of days and stayed a week." Harriet's chores and recurrent pregnancies are eased by the almost constant presence of her mother, whose labor subsidizes this enterprise just as thoroughly as the money from David's father. But cost hardly seems to matter, measured against what it has helped...
...Artie is forced to find friends elsewhere. Enter Angela, a brilliant, British beauty who is a classmate of his. "Of the twelve men who this stuffy room fill,/Two I'd like to screw, three I'd like to kill," she tells him in the note that serves as the overture to the relationship. Unfortunately, the line is the best thing about the affairs, if not the novel. The rest of the novel is primarily occupied with the two's inability to cope with themselves and each other...
...Dialogue cannot be replaced by even the most brilliant monologue," said Achebe. "So much of the `dialogue' is actually between the white man and his brother, and it is not working...
...Appleton, a professor of music and acolleague of Cole, said he was pleased with thedecision. He called Cole "a brilliant scholar" andadded, "I have no doubt that they were raciallymotivated...