Word: musee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are obviously the kinds of roles actors can happily chomp on, and they are all enthusiastically, even gratefully, played. If Director Stephen Tobolowsky's muse sometimes seems too busily antic for the cramped confines of the Manhattan Theater Club stage, his choices nevertheless represent a legitimate response to Henley's writing. On the whole, it is more vividly and crazily charged than it was in her Pulitzer-prizewinning Crimes of the Heart. In fact, in its cut-loose characterizations and brazen theatricality, Miss Firecracker is infinitely preferable to that rather pallid comedy...
...closing chapters of Dark Lady. The first, Will and Testament, is a bawdy historical pastiche in which Shakespeare, with Ben Jonson's connivance, manages to insert his name in the King James translation of the 46th Psalm ("Though the mountains shake . . . He cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. The scholar meets a bad end, but his copies of the plays fall into the hands of the Bard, who blithely plagiarizes them...
...brush strokes, next to the sober portraits of Brown's 33 predecessors. More pragmatic pols argued that there was simply no more room in the capitol's main corridor, where pictures are traditionally hung. Last week the joint rules committee settled the issue by voting for the muse: the painting was consigned to a prominent-and solitary-place on the third-floor landing...
...outside of the stifling confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals a true gift of storytelling but she never carries through with them. They are false starts. For some frustrating reason, Adler refuses to leave Kate in one situation for too long a time, letting her muse instead in a vacuum...
Although the Terriers beat the Wildcats twice in regular season play and outshot New Hampshire, 46-36, the night belonged to the visitors after Muse's first-period score...