Word: characterization
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"The last pope was a great man, but he was also a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character. The church's dilatory response to the sex abuse scandals was a testament to these weaknesses ... So the high-flying John Paul let scandals spread beneath...
Over lunch at a Manhattan hotel shortly before Glee's April 13 return from a four-month hiatus, Lynch characterizes the show's student singers, without irony, as "a group that just wants to make a joyful noise." She tears up recalling her own high school choir experience. She bursts into song. Five times. And though she says Sue Sylvester "doesn't live too far from the surface," the Glee character she feels the most kinship with is Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), a wallflower who fakes a stutter to mask her shyness and generally confines herself to the chorus...
Standing 6 ft. (1.8 m) tall in gym shoes, Lynch has often gotten screen time by taking on parts intended for men. "My first role in high school was the king in a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea,'" she recalls. "It started the pattern." (In The...
The stupid comedy is a curious sub-genre. Most often, movies of this type involve a character who undergoes a great deal of absurd physical tribulations as a result of his or her own stupidity. The character is usually completely unaware of how stupid they are. Example: Lloyd Christmas telling...
Bridget P. Haile ’11 hurries toward the dressing room downstairs, her curled hair bobbing and her long white maiden’s dress bustling underneath her. As she walks, she looks like the perfect anachronism, a remnant of another era—she’s completely...