Word: dantean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idealized portrait of a small California town during World War II, Comedy (the title is meant in a Dantean rather than Keatonian sense) tells the story of the widowed Mother Macauley (Bonnie Koloc), whose firstborn, Marcus, has gone to war, leaving her to struggle along with her three other children. The family, though, is merely the centerpiece of a civic tableau; as staged, oratorio-style, by Director Wilford Leach, a large chorus sits facing the audience,with various performers stepping forward to portray schoolchildren, townspeople and soldiers. The hero is not an individual but the imaginary, indomitable town of Ithaca...
...well versed in the ways of the world. Giulini's interpretation went straight to the heart of this central paradox: fleet and light when it had to be, yet suffused with touching sympathy for Shakespeare's fat, amorous knight. It was comic in the Dantean sense...
...about 30 clubs offering C&W entertainment. Mr. McNasty's, a former gay leather bar in Kenmore Square that is now the city's only seven-night-a-week live country-rock place, often has waiting lines on weekends (Slogan: Famous for good clean fun.) A dark, Dantean cavern that waives the $3 to $4 admittance charge for local cabbies (they help spread the word) and books some of the most popular country-rock acts in the area, McNasty's according to Owner Rich Thomas, 38 is "a workingman's nightclub." Or as Singer-Model Elizabeth...