Word: broodingness
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Still and all, the mood of the evening is impeccably sustained and, rather surprisingly, it is not so much jolly and summery as triste and autumnal. It is as if these world-weary beings had sated their aristocratic tastes on almost every experience except the simplest of joys. Designer Boris...
You leave The Last Fair Deal Going Down as from the complete cycle of a drug--reeling, dazed, and adjusting again to an old reality in a new way. The brooding silence of the Midwest is manic and never bucolic like it was. There may be a quieter, more determined...
For Eugene O'Neill, the early period was his one-act sea plays. O'Neill's almost mystic affinity for the sea was probably the only untormented love that his lonely, brooding, haunted spirit ever knew. O'Neill's late period, in which he exorcised...
PERHAPS, HOWEVER, HIS BREAK from the asylum is rendered impossible not because of the lack of realistic alternatives, offered by a limited stage adaptation, but because he has experienced all too well a condition Billy Bibbitt blurts out in a group therapy session. Big Nurse is goading Billy to tears...
When English Composer Peter Maxwell Davies, 37, was a student at Manchester University, he was thrown out of composition class. "They thought I was no good," he recalls. When he persisted in the new-music salons of London, audiences came to the same conclusion: they shouted "Rubbish!" at the premi...