Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forster's A Room with a View is like A Passage to India in miniature. But in his later novel, the sexual hysteria loosed in Miss Quested by her visit to an exotic land results in major melodrama. Lucy's milder--and curable --case of the same malaise creates only a delightful Wildean farce. At least that's all it does in this movie version of Forster's minor and diverting novel. The formality of James Ivory's style suits this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering...
...poet laureateship may be a title in name only, but certainly no one is begrudging Warren's selection. He is a familiar name to the general public, probably best known for his novel All the King's Men (1946). He is the only person ever to win Pulitzer prizes for both poetry and fiction. His distinguished career seems to have made the introduction of a regal tradition into a democratic society easy for everyone involved. "I think he is such an obvious choice," says Librarian Boorstin, who made the appointment. "We were fortunate to have Robert Penn Warren with...
This project, an adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, has begun to attract attention as a modestly budgeted sleeper that just might translate high-minded feminism into box-office success. Walker confides to his agent his plan to check on the proceedings, and he responds with weary irony: "Terrific, Gordo. You're just what they need down there. You can hassle Lee and piss on the press. Get drunk, start fights. Just like old times, right...
...everything but their own technological prowess. The drawings of the two buildings, on display at MOMA, are oversize and dashing, like Mies himself. Designed without particular functions in mind, one without even a hypothetical site, the forms are altogether different from the architecture that preceded them, not merely novel but profoundly new. Neither was to have any obvious top, bottom, entrance or decoration. Mies' visionary high-rise modernism was not just a few years ahead of its time; dreamy, romantic modern buildings like these did not come along until almost a half-century later...
Adapting Russell Hoban's novel, Playwright Harold Pinter creates his own kind of suspense by setting up one trite movie situation after another, then making us wonder how he is going to avoid cliche resolutions. It is the same with his characters. They come to life as familiar figures, but they take on what one suspects will be an infinite life in memory because of their awkward singularity. Jackson and Kingsley are great somber comedians under John Irvin's quietly assured, tactfully ironic direction. Amazing how the unspoken can resonate, astonishing how much can be implied with a small, deft...