Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal wit. Widow Popova's complaints about her dead husband ("What could a poor, weak woman do / But humor his caprices,/ When acts more suited to a zoo / Took place with neighbors' nieces?") are set to an oompah rhythm and sardonic melody. Though The Bear is no immortal work...
...services of the year-old Adoption Resource Exchange of North America (ARENA) in order to locate a likely girl. She proved to be in Wilmington, 390 miles away. By viewing the video tape, the Garretts saw Amy more vividly than they could have through any number of snapshots and verbal descriptions, made the trip south with virtual certainty of success. Paget would like to see his method become a two-way proposition that allows older children up for adoption to get a videotape look at their prospective parents...
...audience, but these responses will vary from person to person. Cunningham is interested in movement itself, "the physical image, fleeting or static." Unlike Graham in "Clytemnestra" or Limon in "The Moor's Pavane," he has never dramatized a legend. Yet his dances posses strong mood, an atmosphere that defines verbal presentation, perhaps because of the ambiguity and constant change involved in any Cunningham dance...
...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...
...give today's young protesters pause to discover that way back in 1943 this chap Wylie was throwing verbal Molotov cocktails at authority, the church, motherhood, scientists and economists. His book Generation of Vipers, written in a mood of "ribaldry and rage," became a famous bestseller. True, it did not inspire street riots or start campus revolutions, but at least it gave aid and comfort to thousands of as yet un-Freudianized young men and women who wanted to reject their mothers...