Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In a year in which the ubiquitous "character issue" has taken on as much importance as positions on arms control and the deficit, Simon has made good use of his off-beat image, which he advances as evidence of authenticity and personal integrity. After the scandals on Wall Street and...
Perhaps what makes Sondheim's work most interesting is that he is fascinated by happiness without quite sharing the gift for it. Among the characters in Woods are a father uncomfortable with babies, who Sondheim admits is his father, and a mother who regrets having had children, who Sondheim says...
Preaching humility in amateur psychological analysis may seem hopelessly naive, especially now, after the character issue has already destroyed two candidates and a campaign manager. But in the heat of the presidential campaign, it remains imperative to remember the famous Freudian crack that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
Can a candidate laugh at himself? If he cannot sometimes see the absurdity of touring cow barns in Iowa and making small talk in New Hampshire, if he does not occasionally find it odd to be spending two years and up to $50 million in quest of a harrowing job...
Any picaresque epic seems longer than its running time, and this one eventually begins wandering, like Jim, in search of an elusive climax of reconciliation. But this is caviling in the face of two splendid young artists: Bale, 13, who carries the character of Jim through four years of hell...