Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The scene mirrors the sitcom segment that earned Castillo his few minutes of fame, and adds poignancy to what came before and after those golden moments on national TV. Castillo's flamboyant plumage and mating behaviors seem dated and may not appeal to readers who now find machismo to be...
The trademarks of a Peter Sellars production are that it's fresh, different, full of gags and surprises. Sellars did The Mikado with a character vrooming around on a motorcycle, and he set Handel's Orlando at the Kennedy Space Center. But a question remains: Do the elegant and aristocratic...
That scene illustrates a more fundamental problem. Don Giovanni is at least partly a drama of class distinctions. That is why, for example, the cavalier can simply walk in on the wedding of the peasant Masetto and walk off with his bride Zerlina. When Don Giovanni is converted into an...
Just as Sellars' transfer of Don Giovanni to a phantasmagorical Spanish Harlem really tells us very little about Harlem, it also tells us nothing new about Don Giovanni. There have been so many changes in plot and character that Giovanni is no longer Mozart's defiant hero but a quite...
TRAVEL: For those who trouble to venture beyond the expressway, the character and color of the frontier are alive and well