Word: peopledeal
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Why should anyone revive this creaky play, the hit of the London stage in 1841? In the chronology of the English comedy of manners, Anglo-Irish Dion Boucicault flounders between the astringency of Sheridan and the epigrams of Wilde. Yet he took a romantic's delight in character. London...
Sir / Amen! The middle will be as honorable as the left or the right only when it is peopled by those who have considered and practiced their reasons for being there.
It is a difficult problem to work a narrative out of numbness, but Terrence Malick, a former screenwriter making a fine start as a director, has solved it smoothly. Badlands is narrated by Holly in a swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries...
Boyer and Nissenbaum trace the efforts of Salem Village--an extension of Salem peopled mainly by farmers who led their lives in time-honored ways--to win independence from an increasingly maritime and commercial Salem Town. The two authors interpret the support given both Parris and the witch trials by...
Zardoz is a vision of the world 839 years after 1984 Marx once wrote that all schemes of the future must be reactionary, since they are based on conceptions of the past. But it would be fairer to call Zardoz conservative. It is an extrapolation of the present. A group...