Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The drawing-room thriller once breathed haltingly in the hands of such skillful practitioners as Agatha Christie, but even ignoring its dubious dramatic value, the form was always limited. Having exhausted all possible realistic variations, it is not surprising that the thriller playwright has had to turn the form in...
In one of Virginia Woolfs novels a woman character remarks: "I am made and remade constantly. Different people draw different words from me." As much can hardly be said of Messrs. Carter, Begin and Sadat. From them different interviewers rarely draw different words, however clever or persistent the questioning. Begin...
Towering above them is Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest Dutch artist of the 17th century and one of half a dozen supreme draftsmen in the history of the West. The show contains ten Rem brandt drawings, and to see them in the context of work by his more gifted students...
It is easy to challenge the description of the current mood as a return to romance, if only because America's essentially romantic character has never really been in abeyance. Even in a basically romantic country, however, romanticism has its highs and its lows, and right now it is...
"Pouring hot wax on myself? It's just part of the character, you know? For me it's just acting. It doesn't take much talent. Everybody has it. You just have to have the nerve. It's freedom. Onstage it's anarchy. That's the only time you can...