Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dancer. Leaping like a mountain goat from one peak of artifice to another, Dale displays flashes of a fine mind wasted on self-pity and despair. Channing joins him in these sarcastic reveries, but most of the time she has the hard duty of being normal. Sheila is clever enough to keep up with Brian but is essentially undistorted. She feels a mother's love. At the end, while Dale plots and scurries to transform their life, Channing goes about her daily routine. She demonstrates that in art, as in life, the real bravura performance can be quiet fortitude...
...Mode's monolithic melodies, abetted by clever consumer-culture sound effects (dropping ping-pong balls, snipping scissors) and super-resonant production, captures the finely-ground precision of the motionmusik, and added to the heartbreak of frustated adolescent romance, how could it miss...
...could say that the parrot, representing clever vocalisation without much brain power, was Pure Word. If you were a French academic, you might say he was symbole de Logos. Being English, I hasten back to the corporeal: to that svelte, perky creature I had seen at the Hotel-Dieu. I imagined Loulou sitting on the other side of Flaubert's desk and staring back at him like some taunting reflection from a funfair mirror. No wonder three weeks of its parodic presence caused irritation. Is the writer much more than a sophisticated parrot...
...greatest love letters, but whose replies are unfortunately lost forever. In "Braithwalie's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas," he indulges in a latter-day variant of Flaubert's favorite sport, bourgeois-bashing. And the penultimate chapter. "Examination Paper," is just that. This is all great fun, scholarship that's playful, clever, and not without a certain profundity to boot...
...withdraw from a U.S. drama festival as a protest against their government, they had to choose between the punitive wrath of South African officials and the equally ruinous ostracization by their peers. Bonafede's narrative does little more than state the problem with heartbreaking clarity. But his crisp, clever dialogue, enhanced by the enchanting performances of Tom Wright and Delroy Lindo, brings out all the poignancy of an enforced privacy for those vulnerable people whose life is, above all else, their very public...