Word: paragonally
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...blessed in having a sensitive, if occasionally melodramatic cast. Lisa Langford is is both clever and witty as Dr. Livingstone, the psychiatrist assigned to Agnes' case and probably one of the more endearing chainsmokers ever to grace the stage. She becomes the one reliable narrator in the play, a paragon of humor and good sense in an otherwise unrelievedly gothic atmosphere of religious excess. Her exploration of Agnes' past and her search for an alternate ending becomes that of the audience. She is reality personified, confronting and dissecting the ideal...
...should betoken "spirituality" are bound to be put off by the materialist cast of mind that lends its here-and-now toughness to even the most florid of Stella's works. Relentlessly inventive, marred only by the glaring, grinding overcomplication of some of his pictorial machines, he is a paragon of mental horsepower. His show affirms that no painter need be the prisoner of the ends of art history...
During the course of his search, Anson learns that Exeter was not quite the paragon of race-blind meritocracy it claimed to be. The often searing voices of Eddie's friends reveal the difficulties of leaving the gritty sidewalks of Harlem for the green quadrangles of Exeter. One black woman asserts that blacks were at Exeter as a kind of minstrel show to give sheltered white students a sense of diversity: "By God, their kids are going to be well- rounded. They're going to have Rossignol skis and Lange boots and a black roommate for 'an experience...
Number four: I don't much like to talk about the time I met Angela Lansbury. It was the summer of '83; I had just watched this paragon of the American theater complete yet another tour de force, in the revival of unreasable). A friend of mine happened to be in the show, and as I searched around backstage for his dressing room, I came across her room...
...ROOM, hot-shot novelist Don DeLillo turns insanity into a laughing matter. "Nothing original in that," you say, "it's been done hundreds of times since Hamlet." But DeLillo, the paragon of paranoid lit, has packed his literary loonybin with so much intelligence and dramatic punch that madness starts to look like an appealing state of affairs...