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...would be a crime against pleasure and surprise. Among its bonuses, Sleuth is a consummate spoof of thrillers, as keen in satire as suspense. The evening moves from something like the erudite nonchalance of S.S. Van Dine to the venomous gaiety of the "get-the-guests" sequence in Virginia Woolf. In the key roles, Quayle and Baxter are lithe and lethal...
...women traditionally have not been creative, some of the social reasons are obvious, and have been brilliantly analyzed in Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own. According to Woolf, a woman needs, as a bare minimum, financial independence, an income of her own, and a room to work in, things she has never had traditionally...
...women traditionally have not creative, some of the social rea? are obvious, and have been brily analyzed in Virginia Woolf's ?m Of One's Own . According to golf, a woman needs, as a bare n?um, financial independence, an?me of her own, and a room to in, things she has never had tradlly...
...took Meredith the better part of his life to catch on. Nevertheless, by the time of his death-May 18, 1909-he had come to a glorious Victorian sunset as the Sage of Box Hill. Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court. When no one else was around, he talked to his dogs. In art, as in life, he was a nonstop talker, and it is the rhetorical, aphoristic Meredithian grand manner that finally puts off today's readers. Reading Meredith in quantity, Pritchett concedes, is like...
...just funny: it was seriously funny in those days. Tragedy was dean-everybody accepted that. But comedy was managing double duty, in plays like Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Eugene lonesco's Rhinoceros, even Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Audiences laughed until quite literally they cried. In fiction, the selling phrase was "black humor." Some of the best books of the '60s came out ghastly-funny, as if novelists were facing nuclear-age madness, crossed eyeballs to crossed eyeballs: Terry Southern in his underrated little masterpiece The Magic Christian, John...