Word: carrollian
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...partially witty tribute to her thesis on toy theater. The play begins with an actual stage frame in front—quite a feat for the Ex—appropriately adorned with enough spades, rabbits, and cats to resemble a set of Carrollian hieroglyphics. There are also a number of doors in it, which over the course of the evening exhibit their full potential as part of the visually stunning set. Challenges like how to portray characters growing, shrinking, disappearing, and transforming into pigs are solved with an inventiveness apropos of Alice’s uncanny bewilderment at what...
...banquet the author catches the official acting like a Balkan Queen of Hearts, shouting the Bulgarian equivalent of "Off with his head!" when a writer who has offended him is mentioned. Little wonder that when Markov ultimately aroused his ire, Zhivkov once again called for an execution by less Carrollian means. The Truth That Killed is Markov's valediction; it is also his revenge...
...Chandler: "I stared at her ears, liking the way they were joined to her head. There was something complete about them; you knew they were there for keeps. When you're a private eye, you want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...
...length premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Part narrative epic, part rock opera, part home movie, United States is a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, aphoristic examination of 20th century life in 78 segments, lasting six hours and taking two evenings to perform. Wagnerian in its scope, Carrollian in its absurdist wit, Carsonian in its deadpan, stand-up-comic timing, Anderson's work is the biggest, most ambitious and most successful example to date of the avant-garde hybrid known as performance...
Assembled by a network of hackers at M.I.T., Stanford and elsewhere, who all keep adding contributions on their computers, the dictionary offers a Carrollian gallimaufry of inventions. Samples...