Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brady read off eight names with rather less emotion than a railroad conductor calling out station stops, as a line of men, all in blue or gray suits, stepped before the TV cameras. For half an hour, they took turns answering questions or, more accurately, politely not answering them, explaining...
Besides vindicating non-table manners, Rudofsky-assisted by Cooper-Hewitt's Lucy Fellowes-assembles a widely (some would say wildly) eclectic domestic history. In one display he indicts chairs as uncomfortable and unhealthy, particularly the infant high chair ("a vicious, sado-pedagogic trap, as humiliating to a child as...
IN THE SECOND ACT, Cope sets its sights higher and addresses the more spiritual and long-range questions of finding one's place in the world, falling in love, and dealing with society's inherent injustices. On this higher, more soul-searching level, Cope finally takes off and evokes genuine...
Not content to reduce these tangled relationships to one conversation, Mamet has chopped out parts of the afternoon by periodically fading out the stage lights. Mamet meagerly doles out the snips of dialogue between fadeouts, but the impact of each line becomes tremendous. The characters do not merely bounce lines...
IN THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, Ann Rule encounters the same jam of corpses and cops. She also fails to make any of the victims memorable. But Rule does have an extraordinary angle that makes her book dramatic, full of human emotion, and occasionally as chilling as a bedroom window shattering...