Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Victimized by a violent society filled with high-strung, gun-swinging adolescents, the workers try to keep out of the way of clashes between the teenagers and police, but frequently get caught in the middle of the bloody confrontations. Oppressed by a brutal police force which randomly kills first and...
She tried out the idea first with Walt Disney Productions, which would not agree to give her the artistic control she wanted. She skipped the networks, knowing she would have to hack her way through brambles of bureaucracy, and decided to go to pay cable. Showtime agreed to let her...
Kline's conception of the role is that of an oldtime silent-movie villain who relishes his villainy and wants everyone else to relish it. Thus his performance takes the form of a prolonged aside to the audience, missing only the knowing wink. What Kline lacks in gravity, he...
Contemporary historians like to pretend that they are not the people who make history. Self-conscious about their central role in carving out a portrait of the past, they lapse into academic mumbling. Pick a manageable (small) subject, process enough data, arrange all available figures into charts and graphs, studiously...
Knowing this information is one thing. Doing anything about it, short of armed robbery, seems impossible. In portraying his hero's frustrations, First Novelist Robert Plunket successfully establishes the kind of moral guidelines essential to classical comedy. Weiner's plotting only seems to bring him closer to his...