Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Not surprisingly, these qualities can be found in the character of Julian Ramsay, narrator and groping intelligence of Incline Our Hearts. Born in London with the coming of World War II, he is orphaned by German bombs and sent to Norfolk to be raised by his Aunt Deirdre and Uncle...
Merchant of Venice, The: A COMEDY by William SHAKESPEARE. The most memorable CHARACTER is SHYLOCK, a greedy money lender who demands from the title character "a POUND OF FLESH" as payment for a DEBT.
The outside commission, headed by University of Pittsburgh President Wesley W. Posvar, is expected to advocate changes in the current system. One revision might include introducing character witnesses later, rather than earlier, in a hearing. The committee also could change the number of votes required to approve a disciplinary action...
Onstage, Legs tries to sidestep this problem by making Diamond a frustrated entertainer who gets into crime as a way of financing himself on Broadway. The character cannot be taken seriously, and neither can Peter Allen as an actor. A campy night-club entertainer who penned his own single-entendre...
The character and genius of the flamboyant, narcissistic and defiant French painter Gustave Courbet are captured in a rich new retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.