Word: impish
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...displays a modernistic skepticism and worldliness. Though he maintains that J's "power as a writer made Judaism, Christianity and Islam possible," Bloom believes she harbored neither love nor awe of God. He conceives of her as more blasphemous than Salman Rushdie in portraying the Deity as impish and arbitrary...
...short, impish professor of Greek extraction, Popov, 53, was elected mayor of Moscow last April. He and his reformist colleagues plan to open a computerized apartment-rental service and launch an industrial-commodities exchange to barter needed items among enterprises. They have also called for soup kitchens to help cushion the transition to a market economy. Popov and his city council have not managed basic reforms, but they represent a challenge to Gorbachev simply by being in a position to experiment. Popov is one of the founders of the progressive Interregional Group in parliament, and he has criticized Ryzhkov...
...most disappointing performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream comes from Tom Chick, who plays Oberon's jester Puck, who unfortunately gets a little confused about who should be loving whom. Chick is flat rather than impish, insipid instead of intelligent. Puck is normally the most memorable character of this comedy--but not in this production...
...Andy Hardy for the '90s: a scheming innocent, ever wavering between girlfriends, ever scampering away from trouble and smack into worse. With his impish, Darryl Strawberry-size grin and an 8-in.-high flattop haircut that looks like a pillbox hat out of Zsa Zsa's closet, Kid (Christopher Reid) swipes audience sympathy from the get-go. Now he sits in the principal's office after a cafeteria fight with evil dude Stab (Paul Anthony). Seems Stab has branded Kid's dead mother a whore. The white principal is befuddled. "Why in God's name," she asks the perp...
PHOTOGRAPHY UNTIL NOW, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. This idiosyncratic history of camera art culminates John Szarkowski's 28 distinguished years as MOMA's chief photo curator. Szarkowski tells the familiar tale with many unfamiliar images, like an impish papa springing surprises throughout a bedtime story. Through...