Word: virtuoso
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While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which recently finished its run on the mainstage, may be Tom Stoppard’s most famous play, Travesties is certainly his most virtuoso, flawlessly combining the plots of two plays and pulling off stunts like a scene in the style of a chapter from Ulysses or a debate about dadaism, traditional art and love composed entirely of lines from Shakespeare. Travesties features the lives of three famous foreigners who lived in Zurich during World War I: James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and the dadaist Tristan Tzara. Each of these men is radical...
There's enough blood here to appease the Passion of the Christ crowd, plus a nifty catfight in a trailer, a virtuoso buried-alive scene and some Old Testament retribution (an eye for an eye). But Vol. 2 reduces the casualties and gentles down the mood. You get less kill, more Bill. The first was show, this is tell--anecdotes at 10 paces. Of course, this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual...
...documents during deliberations that three of those bonuses were illegal. They were supposed to be approved by the board's compensation committee; they were not. And the reasons offered by Swartz on the stand for why they were legitimate seemed to be fabrications, repeated over and over in a virtuoso performance...
...year, a splendid season of every Samuel Beckett play cued a longish essay; the next, the packaging of musical shorts from the 30s and 40s. And there was the week when all the grownups were on vacation and I assigned myself a page on a Hawaiian steel-guitar virtuoso of the 1920s. For goodness? sake, why? Because I liked...
...He’s] one of the most extraordinary musicians of our time. He is not only universally recognized as a virtuoso at the cello, but also as a major creative force at exploring new works as well as traditional works from other cultures,” said OFA Director Jack Megan...