Word: romp
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...Look is a highly enjoyable exhibit. It takes one on a fashionable romp and leaves one longing for the golden days of fashion. It is also a show that says much in what it fails to present to the viewer—one sees no sign of any political activity, economic hardship or social turmoil. While deceptively historical, The Look actually reveals how fantastical photography, a medium that is usually assumed to be based in reality...
Segal then proceeds to discuss the works of Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli (yes, he of the famous political treatise) Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ben Jonson and Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting...
...full of dart boards, and the space was eventually transformed into the performance space that hosts rock bands of all stripes today. To describe the venue as intimate would be an understatement—the distance between performers and audience has disappeared, and what remains is a joyous, raucous romp through the noise and stage antics of the punk and indie rock bands performing there...
...column that I hope to write will be a silly bi-weekly romp through the pages of Glamour magazine, complete with tantrum-type rants and bizarro generalities about a magazine we all pretend not to read. I hope to add a splash of frivolity to the editorial page while putting in print the psuedo-stream of consciousness babble that echoes in the recesses of my mind. But, for obvious reasons, I found that I couldn’t jump into the intended frivolity with this, my first column. The crumpled, thumbed-through Glamour is sitting on my coffee table...
...story other people only dream about." Yes, we all dream of getting wasted every night and waking up with a strange person next to us. Well, rock fables have to be overstated; how else would you hear the moral over the music? Still, this is a good-natured retro romp that is truer to Golden Age movies than to golden oldies songs...