Word: characterize
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That's the height of the hilarity on offer here, and it's not hard to see where the writer, Dana Fox, and the director, Tom Vaughan, went wrong. Whatever audience for high (or even medium) wit once existed has mostly decamped for Assisted Living. There remains a small slightly...
What is your prewriting process like? -Sarah McLaughlin, Berkeley, Calif.Different books arrive in different ways and require different strategies. Most of the books that I have written have been questions that I can't answer. In order to actually put down the first word-I don't really have a...
Do you think that young black females are dealing with the same self-acceptance issues today as your character was in The Bluest Eye? -Francesca Siad, Calgary, Alta.No, not at all. When I wrote the book, the young women who read it liked it [but] were unhappy because I had...
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”—Stephen Sondheim’s big, bloody masterpiece of a musical—thrashes around on the stage with such furious glee that the idea of critique starts to look silly. Who has time...
Wounds caused by damaged credibility, of course, are also hard to heal. "The problem with credibility," says Pew's Keeter, "Is that people think of it as a fundamental character trait. Some measure of lack of honesty is damaging because it leads to a broader generalization."