Word: demonicism
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The ghosts of the characterizations created by Grey and Minelli loom over Mather's Cabaret, and Don Martocchio and Katie Spillars have evolved different strategies for dealing with them. Martocchio plunges into the part of the Emcee much as Grey did--leering, bawdy gestures, demonic glee and all--but his...
"Sunday morning...undone" works at least partly because Lurie surrounds herself with the artifacts of restless desperation. But "Winter Places," the most effective piece in the program, says it all without using a prop. Although it is not clear whether the dancers braced against the cold are peasants laboring in...
He starts by passing around for mutual approbation photos of his dead fiancee. As a catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or hysterics. Unwittingly, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Cheryl Kennedy), blasted careers, lacecurtain carnage. When Colin, played...
Twenty years ago, Ernst was still a minority taste (a large minority, it is true). But when he died last week in Paris, one day short of his 85th birthday, a chapter in the history of modern culture closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile...
This problem, of course, can be demonstrated but not solved. Is a sacred truth tainted by the human artifact that bears it? Ozick clearly relishes such paradoxes. Her stories are lush evocations of stony mysteries. In Bloodshed, a middle-aged Jew visits a Hasidic community populated chiefly by survivors of...