Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow, Kramer is worried that we'll miss the point (the world is a bum place). So he chucks away any thoughts of character development and splices together two-and-a-half hours of drunken tete-a-tetes to make sure that everyone on board gets a chance to bemoan...
Whiting also creates a character of his own, a sewer worker, whose humble earthiness eventually teaches Grandier to find God in his fellow man. Whiting purposely contrasts the sewerman's habitual obscenities with both the eloquence of Grandier and the blasphemies of the hysterical Prioress. While the sewermen explains to...
The role of the raving Prioress should rightfully contrast with the sane and balanced Grandier, but Anne Bancroft still overplays it. Her Prioress believes too completely in her demoniac possesion, so we miss that nether-land between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the real Soeur Jeanne acted. Miss Bancroft also...
The chronicle of carnival is a commonplace of fashionable fiction, but this attempt is anything but commonplace. Author Cole, a 32-year-old lecturer in the humanities at M.I.T., has wit, charm, timing, a flair with atmosphere, a felicity of verbal gesture, a feeling for character so insidious it persuades...
"The law," says former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's...