Word: richer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paint (as in Self-Portrait, 1986), or spots of pastel, or even thickly textured platelets of papier-mache glued on top of one another, looking to extend the ways in which repetitive, grid-organized painting turns into the irresistible semblance of a face. All the time, the surface gets richer and more baroque, a far cry from the uninviting air of the early work...
With The Cripple of Inishmaan--part of a separate trilogy set in rural Ireland--McDonagh expands his palette; the play has more characters, a richer story line and, at least in Zaks' production, more comedy. The bored residents of an island off the west coast of Ireland are in a tizzy when a Hollywood director, Robert Flaherty, arrives to film the documentary Man of Aran. Billy, the cripple of the title (Ruaidhri Conroy, who played the role in London), is deluded enough to think he might get a part in the movie. Or maybe not so deluded. The plot...
...bricks themselves cannot be made from the region's soil, for unlike fertile Virginia, the Massachusetts colonists found themselves richer in the harbor than the field. Similarly, Hillel and St. Paul's though superficially dedicated to such kin ventures as morality and God, differ on details like whether Christ is the messiah. Similar disagreements between The Crimson and Mass. Hall, and the Fly and Lampoon, need not be explicated. The point is this: urban planning can only do so much to make a community look and feel like one community. The rouge monotony that serves as Cambridge's controlling architectural...
...version he recorded at the age of 26 (which is still available on Sony). His playing has grown deeper and more forceful in recent years, and these warmly romantic performances faithfully reflect that change: the interpretations are far more personal in tone, the sense of fantasy much richer...
...estranged, reunited professionally with the direction and script for the 1996 hit The Birdcage. "We close a circle," Nichols says. "All the difficulties have long been burned away, and only the good parts are left. I can tell her things in our own code, and it comes out infinitely richer...