Word: rapiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rushdie's affable personality and rapier withad the audience breaking up with laughterthroughout the evening...
Rushdie's affable personality and rapier wit had the audience breaking up with laughter throughout the evening...
...fractured wedges. Her fondness for the stretch is expressed in Cincinnati partly by what she calls "the urban carpet": the street becomes the lobby floor, which slopes gently up and becomes the wall. It's also evident in the long, shallow staircase that slices through the building like a rapier. From this staircase visitors can get fleeting glimpses of the art from unusual perspectives, a pattern that's repeated throughout the gallery, which is punctuated with jagged openings (some bringing in light from the skylights on the top floor) and unexpected views. "Instead of seeing the sanctified object fixed...
Yesterday Stuart D. Shapley '99, a candidate for council president, challenged his competitor Beth A. Stewart '00 over e-mail to a duel during which he promised to "redeem myself as an officer and a gentleman by running you through with my rapier, then methodically dispatching that shaggy horde you laughingly refer to as your campaign staff...
...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde--a surprise success way-off-Broadway that has just moved to larger quarters--playwright and director Moises Kaufman has dramatized that fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired. Nine actors facing the audience in two rows--a kind of oratorio at the Old Bailey--re-enact the legal proceedings and comment on them at the same time, using excerpts from newspaper accounts, biographical works and the memoirs of Wilde and others. It's a dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama...