Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudd, best known for his suave Alicia-charming role in Clueless, doesn't have a particularly difficult role. He is labeled the martyr from the outset, the "object of affection" that Aniston will sweat, cry and bleed over from beginning to end. Though he successfully avoids stereotypes, even Rudd seems...
Girl in Landscape thus revisits the Western film genre, offers a noteworthy character development and provides a profound, albeit tacit, discussion of language and meaning--all compensating for an overly transparent style. Maybe Lethem's next works will stray, stylistically, from the clarity that one of his epigraphs calls for...
Like sardines in mustard sauce, Harlan's accent has a taste whose enjoyment requires some concerted cultivation. At first whiff, the quirks of her character are so sharp as to be repulsive. Her prattling naivete as subtly disturbing as a toddler playing with a loaded handgun, Harlan gabs about everything...
...Thoughthe detail and prose style of The Healingalso verge on exaggeration, the flamboyancy andcontemporenaity of the work is amusing in the sameway a reading of Entertainment Magazinemight be. Though the presence of such figures asPaul Simon will certainly (and perhapsintentionally) attach an expiration date to thisnovel, Jones' knack for characterization and herstrong thematic motivation seem to promise anotherwork along the same lines, but with a greatersubtlety of design and characters whosimultaneously artfully forge their own identitiesand manage to operate more within the framework oftruths and values at the same time
Working with such loaded lines, the cast still makes the play more comprehensible than it is on paper, loosening the free verse rhythm of Eliot's lines for the sake of a more conversational composure. Saadi Soudavar '00 in particular, in his enviable starring role as the "Unidentified Guest" delivers...