Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Max Kampelman and Yuli Vorontsov, chiefs of the two delegations, had a luncheon meeting yesterday to discuss procedure...
...suspense expertly, equally convincing in all his character's twisted levels of reality. His abrupt facial shifts from genial daddy to iron-jawed psycho are scary as hell--the expressions of contained violence, forced cheer, and wistful longing that flicker through this dude's eyes would shame many a Max Factor model. This guy really wants a happy family, and you see it in his face as he pitifully watches happy neighbors prancing around their lawns. Gotta love his end, it's just his means that send Oedipal chills up the back...
Thus is joined a fictional battle involving real-life combatants. But Author Max Apple's second novel does not try to generate much suspense over the outcome. Even in the wackiest narrative, the existence of Disney World would be difficult to ignore or disprove. Instead, The Propheteers uses a supposed struggle in Orlando as a farfetched excuse to noodle imaginatively and affectionately with some American myths. What, specifically, might it feel like to be someone whose private, obsessive vision is miraculously rewarded with fortune and fame...
...last month, the English National Opera (ENO) unveiled Director Jonathan Miller's production of Puccini's Tosca set during World War II and played in the style of one of Hollywood's gritty, black-and-white melodramas of the period. Earlier this season, the same company presented a Mad Max version of Bizet's Carmen by David Pountney that replaced castanets and mantillas with feral children darting amid junked American automobiles. In Paris, Producer Seth Schneidman staged Strauss's Elektra as a dream-theory psychodrama, freely mixing images of Greek antiquity and 19th century Europe...
...Constitution, with celebrities (still unnamed) playing the parts of the more prominent signers: George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin. The city will also re-create in its streets the grand parade that followed the original signing, "updated," says Rovsek, with 50 floats designed by contemporary artists like Peter Max...