Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronology is, to put it politely, approximate. What Frewin adds is a culling of choice Parkeriana, a well- considered if clumsily executed effort to evoke the pop-culture context of her times and a brief, provocative assessment of her talents. Parker was, after all, the one person George Bernard Shaw asked to meet at a 1926 Riviera party full of glitterati. On being introduced to the pert, poised lady, Shaw cut to her tragic core as he turned and said wonderingly to Woollcott, "I'd always thought of her as an old maid...
...South Africa, coupled with a lyric ability to lift those observations to the level of metaphor. It is not enough for an artist to be right-minded on even the most potent political issues of his day. To earn a lasting place in literature, to rank with Ibsen or Shaw or Brecht, he must also demonstrate subtlety of craft, power of language and insight into character -- and probably must reach beyond his immediate context into other realms of the real world or imagination. Significantly, after the autobiographical catharsis of 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys (1982), which reflected his formative bond...
Kimberly A. Shaw...
...chair, stumbles into a fireplace screen with a jangling crash, whirls around to recover his balance, ensnares and dances with a grandfather clock, then ends by flinging himself into another chair and reclining silkily with a look of nothing having happened. The bare stage direction exists in George Bernard Shaw's text, but the moment -- and the + character judgment it reflects -- is in large part O'Toole's contribution to his literally smashing, if belated, Broadway debut at age 54, after nearly three decades of international fame and seven Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia...
...sketched by Shaw, Higgins is catnip to women, capable of making them love him, generally at a safe platonic distance, while being anything but lovable. O'Toole has made a career of playing such disappointed idealists, sinning in the name of some principle. He triumphed in the role in London's West End in 1984. That production suffered, however, from a bland and uninteresting Eliza. On Broadway she is played by Tony Winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God), a ferocious comedian who can be just as exotically mannered as O'Toole. The result could easily have been a mugging contest...