Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As Lena, Karen Evans-Kandel makes her debut with the Huntington Theatre Company. An accomplished actress who has appeared on Broadway, television and film, Evans-Kandel's experience is put to the test as she expertly manages to capture Lena's feelings of utter desperation without falling into the trap...
Desperate for a companion, Lena calls out to an old bum (Thomas Anderson) that she spots in the distance, the only other character in the performance. She calls him over to the fire, against Boesman's wishes. Even though the old man speaks only gibberish and doesn't understand what...
These benefits could also apply to teenage pregnancy, violence and rape. Education encourages a strong sense of self and moral character.
The Threepenny Opera originated as a leftist diatribe, and is even more of one in John Dexter's snarly, airless staging. Michael Feingold's translation claims to reflect more authentically the 1928 Berlin debut than the Marc Blitzstein version popularized in the '50s. It is surely less effective. For example...
In Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began...