Word: portraited
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Bloom captures convincingly the evolution of Isabella's moral universe; the oncerigid Isabella has accepted human imperfection by the final act. The ending--the Duke marries Isabella--feels perfunctory in both the play and in Bloom's piece but detracts only slightly from the rest of the portrait...
Lady Macbeth is easily the most gripping portrait of the evening. Bloom takes us through the stages of her disintegration. She sinks to the floor, wanders the stage, pulls at her hair, wrings her hands, looks wild, childish, ravaged, lost. Her soliloquoy "Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thought, unsex me here" is viscerally delivered, its cruel fervor made apparent. Bloom's composite of Macbeth is unusually harsh. In leaving out the "tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquoy--cutting right after "she should have died hereafter;/ There would have been a time for such a word"--Bloom's Macbeth...
Lastly, Bloom offers us Rosalind and the lyrical forest of Arden. While she touches on some serious moments (i.e. the orphaned Rosalind dismissed at whim from the protection of the court), Bloom concentrates most of the portrait on the game-playing and love-playing in the forest...
Candyman, she learn, was a Black portrait artist who impregnated a white subject centuries ago. An angry mob chased him to the present location of the housing project, sawed off his hand with a rusty blade, covered him with honey and let bees sting him to death. Helen's investigations yield some great material, but Candyman takes a fancy to her--she looks just like his lover--and puts a crimp in her style...
Buried in the two 1988 presidential debates, for example, are hints at some of the foreign policy missteps that would shape Bush's four years in office. Bush painted this cheery portrait of emerging freedoms in China less than a year before democracy was massacred in Tiananmen Square: "The changes in China since Barbara and I lived there are absolutely amazing in terms of incentives and partnerships and things of that nature." No reporter was clairvoyant enough to ask the Vice President to assess the intentions of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Bush brought up Iraq himself...