Word: grittier
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...Shakespeare Library in Washington. "He has a witty and inventive spirit, and several of his plays are as great as any plays that Shakespeare wrote," she adds, citing The Changeling, Women, Beware Women and The Revenger's Tragedy as examples. The idea now is to push him as a grittier, edgier alternative. Middleton knew that sex sells, and he filled his plays with it: sometimes nasty, often funny, and always about who comes out on top. Taking advantage of Middleton's raging literary libido, Taylor is promoting the book with a lecture tour on sex in Middleton's plays...
...grittier, jazzier, more daring Western dance had become the new global standard. Now free to emigrate legally, Russian dancers followed famous cold war defectors, like the Kirov Ballet's Mikhail Baryshnikov, West by the dozens, looking for more complex choreography, brighter fame and bigger paychecks...
...good short film, not a minute is wasted. Thanks to tight writing, shorts are often wittier than features. And because they don't have to make back a massive amount of money for investors, they're often grittier. It's hard to imagine this year's darkly original Sundance Jury Award winner, Everything Will Be OK, in which cult animator Don Hertzfeldt's signature stick-figure character, Bill, faces an existential crisis, coming out of the studios that deliver a new twist on celebrity-voiced animals every three months...
...their world. Trachtenberg is at his best when drawing the reader’s attention to the significance of some otherwise-overlooked fact. Trachtenberg first presents Henry James’ more conventional analysis of Whitman’s poetry, only to undercut it by showing Whitman’s grittier side. For Trachtenberg, the poet is not merely a man of nature, but also a man of the urban environment who wrote about dead prostitutes in the street. Trachtenberg’s Whitman is a complex figure, less important as a poet than as a witness to his flawed culture...
...past two weeks, the Crimson coaches have stressed a simpler and grittier approach to scoring. Rather than setting up elaborate plays, they wanted all players—from forwards to blueliners—to focus on shooting to produce rebounds and crashing...