Word: chekhovian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his family is forced to escape to western Europe, Zhivago escapes from the partisans for one last reunion with Lara. It is a weird, snowbound, dreamlike idyl on the edge of disaster, rapturous with love but also with an almost Chekhovian paralysis of the will. Eventually Lara is swept away to temporary safety by her old traducer, Komarovsky...
There was a Chekhovian irony in seeing jaunty, paunchy Dictator Franco review Moorish. Spanish, German and Italian troops on victorious parade in 1939 and, an instant later hearing Narrator Walter Cronkite remind viewers that U.S. Sherman tanks roll down these same avenues today. As Scriptwriter Hughes explained: "Victory is a fragile thing, and history does not linger long in the 20th century...
...Gull is not yet fully Chekhovian, not of the quality of Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard. Already-and quite wonderfully in places-it has Chekhov's fragrance, incisiveness, poignancy; It has dialogue that, if seemingly scrappy and elliptical, constitutes a marvelous sort of notation. Already, Chekhov can convey the apartness and aloneness of people; already, too, he can be about equally compassionate and merciless, not so much acquitting his characters as pardoning them...
What is far more successful and Chekhovian is the expressive group picture-strewn with egotists, eccentrics and bores-which surrounds the youthful tragedy...
...brutal little fray. As rifles barked, an old, grey circus horse that belonged to Sitting Bull pirouetted, postured and then sat down gravely near the chief's cabin and raised one hoof, apparently under the impression that it was back under the big top. After these Chekhovian obsequies. Sitting Bull's body was carted to Fort Yates, N.Dak...