Word: characterizing
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“Last year was the first time in a long time that we’ve won,” Nichols said. “This time really shows our character because we were able to repeat.”
It is significant that this is Ishiguro’s first collection of short stories. He is known for novels that chronicle the internal lives of their protagonists, allowing the narrators to reveal themselves to the audience. He notably employed this technique in “Remains of the Day...
The madness of the French Revolution and the madness of the everyday overlap and intertwine in “Marat/Sade,” the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Peter Weiss’ 1963 play, “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat...
Originally in German, Weiss’ play saw its first English production in 1964, when it was taken up by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook. According to director James M. Leaf ’09-’10, this production had served as a...
The characters are similarly one-dimensional, with no motivations or desires other than those necessary to keep the film moving: detectives want to solve the case, psychopaths want to kill, and greedy executives (both those within the film and the real executives responsible for its creation) want to make money...