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...Wellman has built himself a nice little perch above the landscape of traditional American theater, from which he occasionally leans out and spits at the ground below. He is one of contemporary theater’s dark princes of sensual excess and linguistic innovation; his works focus on the spectacle and grotesquery of extreme personalities and places...
...treatment of standard theater elements—certainly of language—Wellman can be rather vampirish himself. He takes an old word or phrase, drains it dry and then raises it from the dust transformed. Characters in Dracula contort words in eerily brilliant ways, which only grow eerier as they become more possessed (“there is hair growing into my head,” sings one of the particularly mad). When they can’t find the words to describe the alien situations they come upon, they are forced to invent their...
...Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
University officials said Sharpe's affiliation with HMS began in 1985, when he was a research fellow in the Wellman Laboratory...
...sexy to say 'Oh yes, he seemed strange,' or as every newspaper seems to find someone to say 'Oh, he was regular guy, I couldn't believe it.' ... I never expected he would kill anybody but what does that mean?" said Dr. Granstein, Sharpe's research supervisor in the Wellman Laboratory...