Word: shirkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses, and obscure allegory that no director's grand interpretation is likely to encompass its entirety. In his film version, Ingmar Bergman--no shirker from directorial complexity--paid tribute to the sufficiency of Mozart's music to bear The Magic Flute's inconsistencies; he presented a filmed record of a workmanlike, shoestring performance in a provincial opera house...
...typical meeting, a resident being scolded for failing to clean a sticky kitchen floor tried to change the subject, prompting a housemate to snap: "I think this is the way you treat your wife when she confronts you. No wonder you drive her crazy." Notes Martin: "It forced the shirker to realize he doesn't face issues squarely...