Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that, of course, you can sit back, smile, and watch with wide eyes. With all the glittering costumes and the rotating mirrored sets, however, the extravagance at times seems almost embarrassing. The book is just too silly, and quite a few of the songs ring flat in the contemporary ear. Among the notable exceptions to this are some familiar hummable-or perhaps more appropriately, toe-tapping-numbers, including "We're in the Money," Lullaby of Broadway," Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and the title song...
...presidential campaign, Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale last week denounced the plan as "dangerously destabilizing" and called for a freeze on military uses of space. The Democrats believe that the President's embrace of antimissile weapons will fan fears that he is a trigger-happy nucl ear cowboy...
Gurney (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) has a sure sense of structure and an ear for dialogue. But his play is irreparably flawed where it veers away from the original. In James' story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character...
...impulses find their perfect expression in the Mather House Drama Society production of Antonin Artaud's The Cenci. The little-known play, set in sixteenth century Italy, details the family problems of the slightly offbeat Duke of Cenci, who in the course of the play turns Oedipus on his ear by killing his sons and sleeping with his daughter...
...offer one major surprise: a 20-page introduction that amounts to Pynchon's first public gesture toward autobiography. Yet for all the apparent candor of these remarks, buyers should still beware. Pynchon criticizes the young writer he once was on a number of counts: for having a tin ear for dialogue, for tailoring plots and characters to the design of abstract concepts, for using language as a form of showing off: "I will spare everybody a detailed discussion of all the overwriting that occurs in these stories, except to mention how distressed I am at the number of tendrils...