Word: transcendently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While time and subject overlap in the plays of Chekhov and Gorky, the two men differ in their angles of vision. Chekhov was a cardiologist of the wounded heart; Gorky was a cartographer of a scarred social landscape. Chekhov's characters transcend their enervating environment; Gorky's characters drown in the swamp of their surroundings...
...almost a brilliant movie. Judy Davis's stunning performance as Sybylla Melvin, a woman who struggles with the career-vs.-marriage option, transforms a simple story into an honest and captivating film. But even her sensitive portrait of a person who has the courage to buck convention cannot completely transcend a simplistic script. Sybylla defies the limitations of Victorian society by ultimately choosing to pursue a career as an author; the film's flaw is not this decision, but the manner in which Sybylla reaches...
...thing, unlike last year, the games won't count in ECAC Division One competition. But more than that, the Beanpot is (to borrow an oft-used phrase) "a season in itself." Two quick wins at the Garden transcend any number of embarassing disasters in Ithaca, Potsdam or Hanover. Conversely, failing to uphold a reputation as number one in the Beanpot puts a damper on even the most successful of years...