Word: distractedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans once tended to treat high art as a refuge from mass culture. Let Hollywood exude whatever schlock it wanted; let the Box leak its eight hours of imagery a day into the average viewer's skull -- there would always be the Manet or the Rothko in the museum to...
It is the autumn of 1913, and as the war clouds gather over Europe, a cross section of the English nobility gathers at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a weekend's shoot. The symbolic correlation between the mass destruction of feathered innocents and the slaughter soon to ensue in...
In his greatest play, The Glass Menagerie, Williams portrayed his mother, clinging to outworn social "standards" to validate her life, and his withdrawn sister Rose, her madness and eventual lobotomy transmuted onstage into shyness and a limp. His own surrogate alternated between cries of self- justification and outpourings of guilt...
In addition to breaking the law forcibly, the protesters also did a disservice to their own cause. By blockading Hoppenstein's visit, they distracted attention from a potentially effective non-violent teach-out in front of Lamont Library. Many of the scheduled events of the teach-out were cancelled, and...
Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida...