Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production, in town for a limited engagement before moving on to Broadway, understands this well. It preserves the candor of Anne's diaries on stage, bringing the audience directly into her world. Although the play has been adapted to include some newly published material from the diary, the spirit remains the same: a straightforward communication of what it was like to be an ebullient, hopeful young girl forced to live in fear and hiding...
...floors of the annex to an office building in Amsterdam, with Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, the Van Daan's son Peter and Mr. Dussel, a dentist. Although the interaction of these characters in their tight, closed world causes a good deal of tension, there is an overarching spirit of generosity: at no time are they all reduced to despair. The eight members of this group form a loose extended family, and the most touching scenes are those that show how this family finds a way to function in the most terrible of situations. Although Anne claims to resent...
...road block on the highway of coolness. Finally, the appearance of being the kind of slacker who watches six hours of MTV a day, as well as an expertise on campy 70s music can be had for under $60. A set of new books in the spirit of music television delve into three crucial series, which capture the essence of MTV cool...
Next best would be an ironclad guarantee that Beijing will stop selling nuclear-weapons technology to Iran and Pakistan. That would unlock the sale of peaceful nuclear technology, guidance systems and high-speed computers that China covets for economic development. But Beijing has a history of ignoring the spirit, if not the letter, of its commitments, and Clinton has demanded unequivocal, airtight assurances before he does a deal. Officials seem hopeful, though, that this could be the summit's chief tangible accomplishment...
...Yasunari Kawabata and Junichiro Tanizaki--devoted himself to commemorating aspects of an older, purer Japan they all felt would wither after their country's defeat in World War II. That left their postwar successors, most notably Haruki Murakami, to record the ghosts and vacant lots of a land whose spirit seemed to have vanished, leaving a soulless, synthetic wasteland of Dunkin' Donuts parlors, automated fashion victims and cinder-block abortion clinics...