Word: woolfe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howe (The Art of Dining, Coastal Disturbances) probably meant ONE SHOE OFF, which opened off-Broadway last week, as a poetic comment on the corrosive effects of professional failure on personal life, combined with a feminist fantasy of zipless fulfillment. Instead of an absurdist Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? her tale of two unhappy couples at a fiasco of a dinner party resembles sketch comedy -- wacky whimsies stitched together, abasing an able cast. The one memorable notion: an abundance of unwanted vegetables flourishing everywhere inside, not outside, a crumbling country house...
...LOVED VIRGINIA WOOLF...
Harper, who uses Kincaid's work in several of his classes, says her writing follows the tradition of such modernists as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf...
...dreams of independence and reconciliation both come true? Such is the seductive, fairy-tale feminism of the novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. She wrote Enchanted April nearly 70 years ago, around the time Virginia Woolf was lobbying for a room of her own. Von Arnim thought bigger: Why not a villa? Bring four restless Englishwomen to a castle near Portofino to shake off London's damp climate and dim proprieties...
...first assignments were nothing complicated,just short writing exercises to be built laterinto larger projects. I was supposed to look forsome image, some event or story that had whatVirginia Woolf called "shocking power." What Icame up with was, well, nothing...