Word: deliriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production of As You Like It is engaging, but its soppy lovesickness remains a bit earthbound, reaching real delirium only in Dan Kremer's laid- back version of melancholy Jaques. By contrast, James Edmondson's staging of Measure is an exquisite balance of tonally varied scenes in court, monastery, convent and red-light district. Woronicz makes psychological sense of the duke who retreats into disguise rather than crack down on his realm's licentiousness. John Castellanos shrewdly mutes the hypocrisy and heightens the righteousness of the sex-starved puritan who takes his place. Dante DiLoreto and Kamella Tate throb with...
...with a little help from the Good Lord and his own wits, Pryor managed to escape from it all, although not entirely unscathed. Pryor excuses his own drunken stupors and coke-induced delirium as vital relief from comic pain. After all, Lenny Bruce and scores (pun intended) of others set the precedent...
This poet is a hard taskmaster. He wants his readers to clear their senses of the cant and iconography that fog perceptions. His highest value is individualism as evolved by Western civilization. He skips through history to find something rotten in Byzantium, the "delirium and horror of the East." There is also the calamity of modernist architecture: "Ubiquitous concrete, with the texture of turd and the color of an upturned grave." The flip side of this disgust is nostalgia. Though Brodsky overwhelms with startling insight and provocations, he is most affecting in "In a Room and a Half," an account...
Ronald Reagan is like Ronald McDonald, like Donald Duck... all of them are icons, all are interchangeable in the Fun House this country has become. For an instant, Eco and I shared an unconscious, a kind of delirium in which Ronald (Mc)Donald produces Donald and the RR of our president makes for the DD of the Donald Duck that, for once at least, Reagan himself thought he was like...
...narrative. Here he gives equal time to client, architect and builders. The result is a three- dimensional view of an activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance man in delirium": political science at Yale ('65); law degree from Harvard ('69); both assistant to the president and assistant chancellor for physical planning at the University of Massachusetts; graphic artist represented by galleries in New York City and Amsterdam; architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the design prize...