Word: pinter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain, Rushdie had no shortage of defenders. A group of writers led by playwright Harold Pinter presented a petition in Rushdie's behalf at No. 10 Downing Street. Author Anthony Burgess, writing in the newspaper the Independent, stated the Western position precisely: "What a secular society thinks of the Prophet Muhammad is its own affair, and reason, apart from law, does not permit aggressive interference of the kind that has brought shame and death to Islamabad," where the rioting took several lives. "If Muslims want to attack the Christian or humanistic vision of Islam contained in our literature," Burgess observed...
...author that a couple of minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with an almost infinite slyness about the tricky uses to which words can be put, makes Mamet a superb entertainer. He is a sort of American version of Harold Pinter, but funnier, raunchier and with a keener sense of the particularities of time and place...
...theater you finally develop a whole, and your energy is put into rhythm and pacing. In film, you must be ready at any time for 'takeoff,'" Hunt said during a question and answer session following a screening of her televised performance in Harold Pinter's play, "The Room...
Hunt said "The Room" is just one in a series of Pinter plays that will be produced for prime-time televison and directed by Robert Altman "for NBC or ABC, I can't keep them straight...
...verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that served only a low commercial cunning. His eloquent partisanship opened the doors not just for a new moral consciousness but for fresh forms of theatrical literacy, like Tom Stoppard's bedazzling overstatements and Harold Pinter's hypnotic understatements. At Tynan's memorial service in 1980, the former turned to the critic's children and said, "For those of us who shared his time, your father was part of the luck...