Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IF FASSBINDER fails ideologically, he redeems himself through exciting visual effects. It is easy to point out influences in this respect: he places characters in their social setting with the exactitude of Sirk, revelling in the banal and vulgar in terms of taste (flowered wallpaper and knick knacks abound in...
What really interests Allen is the lady of the title and the relationship between her and a character called Alvy Singer. Alvy is a comedian whose style and career are not unlike those of Woody Allen, which is all to the good, since Allen plays him. Annie Hall is tall...
Pristine Chants. Lily is a brilliant flop. A professor at Harvard and a 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner, Kirchner concedes the opera's transparent comment on American intervention abroad. In fact, he once considered (and wisely reconsidered) calling it Why We Were in Viet Nam. What he has produced, however...
The prose is another matter. Each author has hewed strictly to the period assigned him, and no overall style has been imposed. The result is disappointingly uneven. In part two (1760-1820), Gordon S. Wood discusses the celebrated 1801 Cane Ridge revival, a bizarre religious event in Kentucky where, according...