Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...belle long since cracked, her light-footed stroll through the huge, moving set in Nunn's sumptuous, pristine production (in the auditorium next to the one holding "The Coast of Utopia" at the National). Nunn is to stage-direction what Sinatra was to lyric-singing: He's a great reader, finding the undertone in every phrase and pause in the text, and translating that understanding into space, time and gesture. Because Essie Davis impresses more as Blanche's sister Stella than Iain Glen does as Stanley (his body and body language are too refined for the character), this beautiful play...
...play are young, full of hope and vinegar. As my editor reads this column just after noon, the 1848 Revolution is giving Marx and his followers some brazen ideas, and a dear, deaf, dead child is wandering through the inaudible murmur of adult conversation. And if you, reader, happen to be scanning these words at sunset on Saturday, know that the cast is taking one last bow, and the audience - many, I'll warrant, who have seen the trilogy before and have returned for a last glimpse of the monument - is rising to salute the heroic craft of the author...
...those smart travelogues that doubles as an essay. "We're in the mercurial realm of language, magic and intellect. It's Hebrew name is 'Hod.' That means splendor," is a typical bit of sometimes overly-didactic dialogue. Moore delights in revealing how everything ties together, sometimes leaving the reader feeling lectured. Even so, he is enough of a storyteller to never let us go too long without some adventure. Issue 16 has Promethea perilously sink to the bottom of a literal ocean of emotion. In issue 18 she slips into the anti-Kabbalah system of Qlippoth where she encounters...
...process of trying to do so, I have wondered if there is room for poetry on the Crimson editorial page. It often seems to me that there’s room for one gimmicky first paragraph (note my example above), and a clear stance the reader can agree with or flagrantly disagree with, and that there’s room for little else. Because do we not, here on this page and in conversations all through sections and dining halls of the University, expect solid opinions, or positions, more than we expect an intelligent recognition of complexities, a thoughtful position...
...PALM READER...