Word: broodingness
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For a grand master of surreptitious sophistication who is portrayed in the Italian press as brooding, moody, uncommunicative and withdrawn-a Heathcliff with Magic Markers-Armani sets a fast pace and a high level of good humor and good will with his 26 employees. A trim, quick figure of medium...
Assassination: no other crime so thoroughly wrenches the world to attention. The killer squeezes a trigger (the gunfire always surprising bystanders with its weightless pop! pop!), and civilization itself seems to scramble hysterically before him. For an instant, the assassin's life of brooding impotence is stood on its...
The sentimentality glows against the chilliness of the script, and I assume the chill is Griffiths'. It's easy to tell that an Englishman had a hand in the dialogue, since much of it is in their Front Page-filtered notion of how Americans, particularly journalists, talk--the hardboiled, crackerjack...
She came into the land of harsh, brooding mountains and the eternal, green-blue Irish Sea, a princess and stranger. But she charmed the countrymen thoroughly and soon they welcomed her as their princess and friend. The trip to Wales last week by Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of...
Parody is Christopher Durang's native element. He can mimic and spoof manners, trends and styles of speaking in ways that inflict the sting of truth just as surely as those of a good caricaturist. But Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as...