Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, first of all I happen to like schemes. I wanted my room to be more than a mish-mosh of posters; I wanted my room to have a definite feel to it. When I look around my room right now, I essentially feel happiness. On the surface, the brilliant colors and the many smiles just make my room a wonderful place to be. However, the emotion I feel goes beyond how cute Pooh looks, but also involves all the underlying emotion and personal connection. By surrounding myself with the inhabitants of Pooh Corner all over my room...
...apparently picked up enough political savvy along the way to run what local politicos called a brilliant campaign...
Starting, no doubt, with Cynthia Tucker, who edits the editorial page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. These two brilliant black people have been waging an epic feud since the mayor took office six years ago. Campbell says Tucker suffers from a "slave mentality" that causes her to be "more vicious than white journalists." She says Campbell is "strident," "vain" and "out of control...
...which make Chekov's rural social philosophers seem as though they could just melt into the landscape, and you have a two-hour-long painting on the stage. Yeremin's staging makes every use of this artistic ingenuity. His actors move more like dancers than farmers. Yeremin has a brilliant sense of space, horizontal and vertical. The simple act of swinging in a hammock becomes a study of one man's motion across an empty plane. In Yeremin's hands, the A.R.T.'s corps of performers become points in space--tiny, beautiful additions to the landscape, like the figures...
...center of Yeremin's production simply cannot hold. Yeremin turns the speeches Chekov meant his characters to address to one another into performance pieces directed at the audience, turns moments of quiet, embarrassed emotional confessions into visual spectacles. Gone is the intimacy that makes Chekov brilliant and the nuance that makes him profound. Ivanov the play is too beautiful a play to be treated so harshly. And Ivanov the production is too gorgeous to engage in such a struggle. Chekov and Yeremin are both brilliant, but their brilliance is not of the sort that can be reconciled...