Word: peculiarities
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When Shakespeare goes awry, the audience can find redemption in the language. Even bad Shakespeare retains value due to the stirring beauty and evocative imagery of the poetry. Such is not the case with bad Mamet. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s language is all about its peculiar, febrile rhythms. A production which fails to capture those rhythms, therefore, falls flat, losing not only the enjoyment of the dialogue, but all of the richness contained therein. Such is the case in the recent production of Oleanna at the Loeb Experimental Theater...
...most peculiar aspects of the year-long Palestinian uprising is the decimation of the Israeli left it has caused. Both the Israeli and the international press abound with interviews in which ex-leftists denounce their own naivete and compete in attempts to ridicule their once-cherished notion of a “New Middle East.” As a direct result of this development, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a highly controversial politician, is enjoying approval ratings that would make most self-respecting despots blush...
...fitting within a certain space.” Bare lightbulbs on the ceiling illuminate the sections of the display, which are partitioned into square grids with masking tape, each grid marking the space that a particular bag occupies. The asymmetrical geometric arrangement of the bags and objects lends a peculiar charm to the display, and the sparseness of the room brings out with astonishing vividness the hues and shapes of the objects—as well as the dramatic contrasts between the objects themselves, which would not have been as evident in a more well-lit room...
Naipaul’s latest novel, the thin, peculiar and effective Half a Life, goes some distance toward showing that the two spheres represented by his travelogues and his fiction are, for Naipaul, hardly separate. Half a Life’s protagonist, Willie Somerset Chandran, undergoes a series of life changes and geographic moves that illuminate how the colonial condition makes its subjects bury their own pasts, both personal and collective, as they adjust themselves to their native, colonial and adoptive homelands...
...with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like “Guerrillero.” Which makes Kanetic Source’s rap in the middle of “Dos Cosas Ciertas” sound a little like a mic-rush by a peculiarly talented audience member: It’s surprising, cool, the band don’t seem to mind very much, but it doesn’t quite fit in. Ozo at times run the risk of reducing themselves to a well-chosen sample on their own album, a peculiar fate...