Word: cunningness
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The Japanese think of Americans as far-ranging hunters, individualists, carnivores. They think of themselves as wet-rice farmers, rooted for many centuries in the same corner of the same prefecture. Perhaps each culture is wistful for the virtues and attractions of the other. Japan has, in any case, none...
If there are, say, ten great fashion designers in the world right now, then at least three of them are Japanese. These are not international celebrity couturiers, doing cunning variations on conventional forms. These are revolutionaries, insurgents whose aim is to modify, sometimes even change, the shape and form of...
While the show is generally well-done, the uneven acting prevents the play from being all it could. Brenneman convincingly handles the most difficult role of Vinnie, alternating between the emotionally childish "daddy's little girl" and the cunning, evil woman who twists people to murder or suicide. But her...
Toward the end, Greenaway's cunning conundrum of a plot unravels a bit. But by then he has made his point about the social power of the artist (whether Michelangelo or Mailer) in a society that wants him as an entertainment but not an equal. That Greenaway made this...
The Feud is further evidence of how deeply Berger remains committed to his marvelously skewed sense of language and the hapless bipeds who use it. The novel is set in the small-town America of the late 1930s, a place and time frequently celebrated in nostalgic memory. It has been...