Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Controlled lighting also emphasizes distortions of depth and perspective: at one point when the mother crosses from the chaise-longue upstage ten feet to a chair, the shadow on her face never changes, and it looks not as if she has walked toward the audience but as if she has...
Orson Welles, looking puffy, overblown and overweight, exhibited Chimes and Midnight, a lively film that he directed and wrote with the help of William Shakespeare, who supplied the chief character: Falstaff, played by Welles. Through the centuries, most actors have had to stuff padding under their tights to play the...
This remarkable volume demonstrates that she was a great writer of another kind: a superb expositor of the self in the grand Gallic tradition of Montaigne, Rousseau and Ninon de Lenclos. From 2,000 pages of random reminiscences, which Colette published but never collected, Editor Robert Phelps has skillfully constructed...
Ivanov. Chekhov's anti-heroes lead lives of tragic farce. Where the Marx Brothers once chopped up a train (in Go West) and fueled the engine with the kindling in order to keep going, Chekhov's pinched landowners would rather die than chop down their forests. They have...
O'Brien's anarchic foray against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis...