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ART: The Dickens of Drawing
Names possess a peculiar indelible power -- subversive, evocative, satirical, by turns. The name is an aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full...
"We started to forget about those titles that you only sell one of a month, but that you need, like the Melville or the Dickens," he said.
It takes a Scrooge to say so out loud, but America's regional theaters have become sickly dependent on A Christmas Carol. Dozens of troupes mount Dickens' sentimental fantasy year after year -- using at least 20 different adaptations, most by artistic directors yearning to be credited as authors -- with ever...
FOR YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently...