Word: murk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is amiable in its vaporous way is best explained in two words: Art Carney. Carney is a master of comic body English: when he stumbles over a table in the flickering, candlelit murk of a coffeehouse and barks at the bohemian proprietor like a wounded seal, "Are you OPEN?", he is inexpressibly funny. As lovable as Carney's philistine brute is Elizabeth Ashley's collegiate beauty, perfumed with dew-behind-the-ears charm. Between them, these two duck a good many of the script's incessantly bursting soap bubbles...
...Black Book, by Lawrence Durrell. A glittering, impudent, outrageous novel, all murk and manifesto, written by the author of the Alexandria tetralogy when he was 24 and had just made the heady discovery that he was a very good writer...
...Black Book, by Lawrence Durrell. A school piece by the author of the Alexandria novels, written when he was 24, and full of murk, gloom, glittering words and the beans of youth...
...Black Book, by Lawrence Durrell. A school piece by the author of the Alexandria novels, written when he was 24, and full of murk, gloom, glittering words and the beans of youth...
...orchestration of this work even less complete than that of Boris, and the plot is far more complicated and considerably less powerful than that of his earlier chef d'oeuvre. A production of it is therefore obliged, musically and dramatically, to take the utmost care to clear up the murk caused by its incompleteness and intricacy...