Word: improvisationism
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Yet, finally, it is not Chaplin's profligacy that awes the viewer of Unknown Chaplin but the relentless perfectionism of his all-encompassing ego and, curiously, a sort of higher frugality. He seems never to have forgotten a good idea, returning to half-formed conceptions years after they occurred...
Creativity and improvisation went into many entries. Chesrios, stuffed animals and marshmallow fluff were the secrets to success behind a few of the surviving eggs. A watermelon, a potted plant and several huge snowballs weren't so lucky. Cornell Daily Sun
The construction of the novel has not helped matters. Ararat is built on the ancient practice of poetic improvisation. Its key character, Rozanov, a Soviet poet and a scoundrel, has mastered the art of making up a story or a poem when presented with a subject by someone in his...
There is scarcely a discernible connection between the improvisers' tales. Usually after a bout of vicious lovemaking, each bard tells a snippet of a story. A Russian seduces a teen-age Polish gymnast on an ocean liner; an Armenian American on a pilgrimage to Soviet Armenia makes furious love...
The outermost story is that of Sergei Rozanov, a Russian poet who travels to Gorky to sleep with a blind woman who'd written him a fan letter. The encounter becomes tiresome, yet Rozanov feels duty-bound to the entire night with the woman. In an attempt to make the...