Word: interwoven
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...greed vs. decency in Victorian London: virtually all of it is there, twists and turns, guffaws and grief, more than 130 characters wearing some 375 costumes and 75 wigs. Yet the epic sweep almost never overwhelms the emotional intimacy. Good ultimately triumphs in each of the half a dozen interwoven plots, but the show ends with the now wealthy title character carrying an abandoned boy--a symbol of the hapless children whom Nicholas frees from the sadistic Dotheboys Hall and of the innumerable others who continue to suffer poverty and abuse, in Dickens' time and our own. Fans...
...falling off her chair, that's a lot easier and it makes me free to say anything I want." As that self-analysis suggests, Sondheim's lyrics consistently reach past charm and wordplay (in which he delights) to become compact, emotive playlets. He composes not just songs but complexly interwoven suites. The tales his shows tell are almost all about loneliness, obsession and disillusionment--there is scarcely a happy love story in the lot --yet their honest grasp of human nature brings unexpected emotional satisfaction. Watching and hearing a Sondheim show is not always easy, not always comforting, but always...
Margaret's written apologia to her son forms one vivid strand of this intricately interwoven novel. She and Pinkham had flourished during the 1960s. It was a time of adolescent hope, particularly for people entering their 30s and 40s. She writes, "Your father, think of it, Bayard, was rebuilding slums. There was to be warmth and light, Shakespeare and the beat of African drums . . . Your mother wrapped in a slave's headcloth above a bastard dashiki. French champagne with grits. See the good of it before you laugh...
...ambition and reaction that caused a relative handful of mostly privileged young people to join fascist movements and endorse Hitler and the Nazis. Because such infiltration no longer threatens Britain's independence, the novel lacks The Endless Game's aura of larger significance. But it offers two ingeniously interwoven plots--twin attempts to discredit a father and son, 35 years apart. To understand what is happening to him, the son must solve a puzzle that baffled his father, who died in combat before his heir was born. Author Bertie Denham, 58, who has written one previous mystery...
...Interwoven with this story of an inescapable past is a more conventional one of an unattainable future. Terry Delaney is a night watchman and second-rank professional rugby player who suffers the double curse of discontent and lack of direction. He has no complaints about his wife but longs for passion. He hopes athletics can lead to a job in journalism or public relations, his vague image of an easy life. He is unsettled by the changes he sees in Roman Catholic tradition, epitomized by a closet-gay parish priest. When Delaney meets the Kabbelskis, Stanislaw's granddaughter Danielle seems...