Word: improvisationism
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None but the French have swum so easily in the rude and mysterious currents of American culture. They found philosophy in our comic strips, published our expatriate novelists, embraced Hollywood movies and dubbed their directors "auteurs." And when the pioneers of bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the...
The excavation has provided ample proof of Kovacs' prodigious achievement. Not that all of it is funny. Much of Kovacs' comedy strikes a viewer today as rather obvious and crudely executed. Steve Allen, another pioneer of live TV comedy, was a more dexterous verbal wit; Sid Caesar a more inspired...
A number of Americans refuse to join the celebratory chorus of Ronald Reagan's second term. They feel alienated from a political system in which they feel they have no voice. They feel threatened by the elaborate technology of surveillance and intrusion now available, by the data banks, credit checks...
By today's behavioral standards, the Continental Op is a head case. But his blunt vernacular helped to establish the voice that influenced generations of American writers. Like that other homegrown art form, jazz, the hard-boiled style relied on a formula but encouraged improvisation. James M. Cain (The Postman...
The play is performed in Camadia form, which means--if the production itself is any indication--that it is played outdoors, is full of improvisation and divergence from the script, and uses only 12 players to play 61 different parts. There is no backstage, and the single-layer costumes are...