Word: dramatistic
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...race worth running, even on a muddy track, and with tough competition. And suppose the rabbit were to go all the way-Woody Allen, dramatist. That just might be what Allen Stewart Konigsberg has been searching for all his life: the biggest one-liner of them...
...Flanagan: Put it in the record that he was the greatest dramatist in the period of Shakespeare, immediately preceding Shakespeare...
Williams has said, "I was brought up puritanically. I try to outrage that Puritanism." As a dramatist, he sometimes practices a reverse puritanism by preaching salvation through the big stud. This holy devil can redeem parched, inhibited and neurotic women, but those who do not avail themselves of his service, like shy, strait-laced Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, seal their doom...
...role of the poet in a civilization sliding downhill-the metaphorical fate reserved for a Borges? Is prosaic reality the only escape today? Elsewhere in his writings, Borges suggests that there is such a thing as a surfeit of language. In a parable about Shakespeare, he writes that the dramatist, fired with the need to fill his own emptiness of spirit, created a rich panoply of kings, villains and lovers. In time, he wearied of all the pomp and splendor and abruptly returned to a plainer reality. Aged and blind, Borges may have sought a similar respite. The voice...
...friend who once encouraged her to go to Paris that she has chosen for her epitaph the phrase Amor Omnia. "There is no other life than to love," she says. And he, it seems, has turned from writing on free will to publishing a book about Racine, the dramatist of "tragedy of passion." But Gertrud is left to die alone. The final shot is of a closed door. Is some kind of perfect love to be idealized but to remain always unobtainable? Dreyer is typically ambiguous. He is interested in creating moods in which ideas are suggested, rather than...