Word: fluttering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Palestinian flags flutter everywhere in the village. The walls are coated with spray-painted slogans. The army will arrive soon and order the villagers at gunpoint to take down the flags and paint out the slogans. When the army leaves, the flags and slogans reappear...
...Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...