Word: woven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely due to the director, John Heffernan, who successfully sustains a flow of nuances. Delicacy is certainly one of his fortes; understanding of understatement and detail are others. His blocking turns a two-faced stage into an advantage, and, less technically, his bits of madness and sadness are woven into the actors and action as pleasantly as Capote wove them into the script...
Back in the Texas of the 1890s, when the pen was not always mightier than the six-shooter, Editor William Cowper Brann grew so bitter about sham and injustice that he longed for "a language whose words are coals of juniper-wood, whose sentences are woven with a warp of aspics' fangs and woof of fire." The language came so naturally that in three years of publishing in Waco, then a town of 25,000, he built a phenomenal worldwide circulation of 120,000 for his one-man monthly Iconoclast. It also tore Waco into feuding factions, got Brann...
...keyed collection of nine arrangements of modern jazz works (Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight, Miles Davis' Swing Spring), plus three original compositions by French Hipster Hodeir, Europe's leading jazz critic-composer (Oblique, On a Riff, Cadenze). The emphasis here is on intricately woven ensemble playing, shot through with some fine flights of "written improvisation...
...Pity She's a Whore has great possibilities. Intriguing, suggestive opportunities for passion and subtlety are richly woven into every act. Unfortunately, the HDC makes the least of nearly every opportunity; their production of Tis Pity drops Harvard theatre to a low level--an overacted, externally acted, embarassing, awkward level...
Ford's impressive play is the story of an unhappy incestuous affair between a brother and sister. Three sub-plots are woven in to introduce, other suitors for her hand, their vengeful opponents, and a comic lout, who is murdered by mistake. Pregnant by her brother, the girl's affair is discovered, which leads to a climax of deaths. Read the play some...