Word: sophisticatee
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The timeworn book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse portrayed the well-heeled Long Island crowd in the Gatsby era. James Racheff's adaptation, first seen in a smaller-scale 1989 version at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House, transposes the locale to Harlem. It brings together a moneyed sophisticate, black...
- This is seen in the six predella panels the Met has reunited from his early masterpiece: an altarpiece for the Wool Guild of Siena. The clarity and measure of the green architectural frame, with its slender columns and bladelike ribs, in which the theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas kneels in prayer...
The plot is so beguiling that the only real surprise is that no one thought of it before (though Francis Coppola's 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married was Big in reverse). Josh Baskin (David Moscow), a twelve-year-old who has just discovered girls, realizes one day that he is...
Those who watched the Iran and Bork hearings were reminded of how inadequate a capsule summary can be if you've seen the movie. Less familiar committee members -- Inouye, Hamilton, Mitchell, Specter, Simpson -- appealed just because their humanity hadn't vanished behind a professional veneer. They were earnest, perhaps a...
Laughter is more appropriate -- the laughter of recognition, not of condescension. Byrne has the joy of a SoHo sophisticate discovering that there are other beguiling life-forms out there, and True Stories communicates that pleasure as ripely as any film made by New Yorkers in Texas since Bonnie and Clyde...