Word: pedanticism
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The Theatre Company of Boston lacks faith, however. The company seems particularly unimpressed by Richard's dethronement, although the battle that precedes it features alarums, excursions and enough flashing lightbulbs to make one wonder whether Shakespeare might have considered writing a script or two for Star Trek. In fact the...
The streets of Paris are a gold mine for Frederic's greedy eyes. But he has no pressing moral problems. Plain bourgeois doldrums weigh down his pillowed existence. He paces his office like a lover distracted over his erratic Chloe, and fails to see that his abstemious attention is a...
Some of Kotlowitz's set pieces are fine. Great-Great-Grandfather Eliezar, 104 years old, flatulent, pedantic, almost abstractly randy, argues minutiae of the Talmud with his 75-year-old son and dies one Friday night when he falls asleep and sets fire to himself. Kotlowitz's best...
The result is the exhaustive effort of a New York-intellectual brain with an obvious leftward slant trying to comprehend the phenomenon of a Methodist from South Dakota and a shrewd dealer of the Wad running against each other for President. Mailer remains throughout skeptical, pedantic, perceptive, and, in spite...
Democrat from a very conservative, very Republican state. He is the plain-spoken son of a country preacher who now sports $15 Gucci ties and owns an elegant Japanese-style house in a quiet corner of northwest Washington, D.C. He is a middle-aged prairie populist whose strongest national appeal...