Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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In the end, the TV sensation Survivor was all about downsizing. Sixteen people voted one another off a desert island until the last one claimed $1 million. So how could anyone but the corporate trainer have won it? Richard Hatch used group-management skills to build protective alliances, describing his...
And relentless predictability. Vianne always knows, and we always know, what effect her concoctions will have on her customers. They always shake off their repressions and troubles at precisely the right inspirational moment. Dench's character even manages to die just when she should, with her life's work neatly...
A character faces the audience at the beginning of a play and starts narrating the story--it's the most overused device in modern theater, a refuge for authors who find it easier to tell rather than dramatize. But when Jane Eyre, the heroine of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel...
None of this can dull a fine performance by James Barbour, a magnetic and strong-voiced Rochester. With his flowing hair and smoldering passion, he can at least be thankful this show grabbed him before Jekyll & Hyde. But Marla Schaffel, as Jane, fares less well. Despite a lovely voice, she...
In fact, some thriller fans may feel that Wilson drags out the suspense a tad longer than is strictly necessary. But more patient readers will find plenty to divert them along the way. Coelho, for example, is not simply a plot functionary but an interesting and sympathetic character in his...