Word: dramatistic
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...draw crowds away from a good bear baiting back in Shakespeare's day. But the movies are something else entirely. Never before has a form of entertainment so suddenly and dynamically stolen the magic of illusion and performance that once belonged to theater. Many a poor 20th century dramatist has spent his career searching for ways to put theater back at the center of humanity's imaginative life. Leave it to an Irishman to figure the whole thing out. If there is one thing which the movies cannot and will not ever be able to capture, it is the sheer...
...some of these people right now: Sixteen is way too much; just ask any good dramatist. Nobody can tell them apart. This isn't a Robert Altman joint (is it?), and oh, by the way, do you not remember that most of Robert Altman's crowded-cast films, um, sucked? (Except for "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" that is, but even then they worked because the big group was broken down into four or five small groups). Whom do we remember from "Survivor 1," anyway? Just the last few: Richard, Sue, Sean, Rudy, Kelly (one was named Kelly, right...
...decision to turn his life into art set Lennon apart from McCartney in terms of style. Lennon was a diarist , while McCartney was a dramatist. Many followed Lennon into the new world of singer/songwriter-dom. But few matched his poetry or honesty. For Lennon, confessional songwriting was much more than just the prominent use of the first-person pronoun, which seemed to become the norm in the self-obsessed...
...dramatist is denied these techniques. Theater cannot create perspective with the same precision as fiction and film. A playwright may only present what a character does and says or what others do and say with regard to that character. He or she cannot force the audience to look at those actions or words from a specific point of view. Thus, in the case of madness, the inner development of a victim of insanity cannot be easily conveyed, for an audience will be prone to classify all varieties of irrational behavior and speech as more or less the same. Madness itself...
Wendy Wasserstein, a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist, and Dr. Susan J. Blumenthal, the Assistant Surgeon General and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health, spoke Friday about the secular successes of Jewish women...