Word: puckish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MUSIC Sting's puckish new album rewrites the book of love...
...BOTTOM LINE: The former Police-man rewrites the book of love with an album of puckish passion plays...
...many familiar pleasures. True to the album's title, which alludes to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Sting serenades the listener like a storyteller turning pages in the book of love. The artful introspection of his previous record, 1991's The Soul Cages, has been replaced by a puckish objectivity; each song is a self-contained vignette, distilling a moment or sometimes an entire life, traversing the emotional spectrum from unfettered joy to the abyss of abject despair. Sting's sonic palette has grown impressively eclectic: he illustrates each tale with a sure-handed array of dramatic colors -- a stroke...
...screenplay Women in Love, then co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the radical Act Up. Onstage, he retold his life in The Normal Heart (1985) and resumed it in this off-Broadway stunner. Jonathan Hadary gave the performance of the year, balancing titanic rage, puckish mockery and suppressed self-pity...
...puckish satire," Benjamin says of the play, which has elements of Renaissance drama, political comment and such Pudding traditions as the 'punrun,' anachronisms and time manipulation. Mark O'Keefe calls the show "more realistic," and adds that it is "a more sensitive or sympathetic treatment of women than in the past, if that is even possible...