Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of tentacles everywhere," saysProfessor of Music Kay K. Shelemay, anethnomusicologist. "Folklorists are likechameleons," because they can fit in anywhere andconstruct their own opportunities...
...resembled emotional blackmail. The narrative, two hours without intermission, felt strained and wearisome. Many theatergoers fidgeted or tittered in the wrong places. (There aren't many right places to laugh in Passion, which makes no use of Sondheim's greatest gift -- a talent for writing intricate comic lyrics that fit the characters.) Sensing disaster, Sondheim and director-librettist James Lapine revamped the plot, recast a major role, picked up the pace and added three songs. The show is vastly improved, but huge problems remain. The obsessed woman, stirringly acted and sung by Donna Murphy, is still difficult to like...
...revelations about emotions and erotic desire seem to be accidental. Ogden spends the bulk of her time waxing poetic on the beautiful possibilities of sexual liberation, rather than presenting concrete ways to achieve those ends. At times, her analogies and explanations can be downright silly; Myrtle the Muskrat would fit better in a children's book rather than this presumed exploration of female sexuality...
...close-up shot of a woman's navel surrounded by pink orchids, gives it away. Or the font used in the title lettering, highly reminiscent of a Harlequin romance novel. The interior of the book also betrays any serious scientific aims. Ogden's prose is casual, interrupted by sporadic fits of lyricism: "We allow the energy to reverberate in our consciousness and beyond." Now how exactly does that fit into a Venn diagram...
...women have been striving all these years to upgrade our stature in society. Now disrespectful clowns calling themselves designers insultingly propose that we wear ludicrous, outlandish costumes fit only for a rebellious, attention- craving 13-year-old. You should have disdained the eccentricities of misogynistic minds...