Word: characterizations
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Rather than with Bridget, curl up with Nuala O'Faolain (Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman) and Julia Scully (Outside Passages), who elicit a hundred now-isn't-that-the-truth moments. O'Faolain, a celebrated columnist at the Irish Times, is more than a female...
Within the century's first two decades, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and James Joyce--the advance squadron of modernism--created works that broke dramatically with the past, tearing apart traditional artistic structures and reassembling them in startling new ways. The convulsion of World War I only reinforced the modernists' conviction...
When a character in Monsieur Verdoux remarks that if the unborn knew of the approach of life, they would dread it as much as the living do death, Chaplin was simply spelling out what we've known all along. The Tramp, it seemed, was mute not by necessity but by...
Reno wasn't alone in being out of character; the decision put plenty of politicians and pressure groups 180 degrees from normal. Oregon senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, spoke of a victory for state's rights, while the National Right to Life committee complained that the government wasn't providing...
"I thought Harvard played an absolutely outstanding match," said UNC Coach Anson Dorrance following his team's defeat of Harvard. "I want to compliment a tremendous Harvard team. Everyone, from their players to their coaching staff, had a good game plan. They played with character...and made a tremendous game...