Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories. But Atkinson maintains a tone of scrupulous neutrality, and he never loses the Point of his narrative. All along, his greatest character is the military academy itself, sustained by patriotic zeal in the '50s, pocked by...
In this drama Edward Duke has taken a character created by early 20th century writer P.G. Wodehouse and put him into a series of storytelling situations. The stories however, never cease to delight and amuse because Duke keeps pulling a number of comic, eccentric characters out of his hat.
What is amazing about this show is the wide range of characters into whom Duke ably transforms himself. Duke's expert manipulation of body language, speech patterns and facial expressions allow the audience to follow easily as he moves from one character to the next. And whether he plays Jeeves...
"We showed character coming back," Burger said.
It would be a mistake to see Woody Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is...