Looped is a triply apt title for the new Broadway show about Tallulah Bankhead as channeled by Valerie Harper-- She arrives loopy and late for an appointment to loop a muffed line into her gothic horror movie Die Mommy Die! Her outrageousness and procrastination knock the film editor for a loop. Good title and performance but weak script.
Christopher Walken's spooky, 47-year hand hunt in A Behanding in Spokane may well prompt lexicographers who seem to have heard only of people being beheaded to legitimize "behanded" -- and also take it off Scrabble's no-no list. For more about this behanding, see http://www.curtainup.com/behandingatspokane.html
A lesson on this word is not something you'd expect to find in a comic marital drama-- yet, that's exactly what happens in Lucinda Coxon's Happy Now? in whih the main character's husband is a lawyer-turned English teacher who cares deeply about word use and punctuation-- a quick recap of student submission of Onomatopoeia examples like bang, crash and wallop (which he questions)-- he moves on to the well-placed comma. For more about the play seem my review at www.curtainup.com/happynow10.html
Yes-- I was just about to edit that pos-- my mistake-- probably because I saw both Misalliance and a musical adaption of Importance of Being Earnest in last 2 weeks-- it's definitely Algernon and Ernest in Importance of. . .NOT Misalliance who used Bunbury
While Horton Foote's plays have often been called Checkhovian, Convicts, the middle play of this first part of Orphans Home Cycle has a distinctly grotesque Dickensian feel,
While Horton Foote's plays have often been called Checkhovian, Convicts, the middle play of this first part of Orphans Home Cycle has a distinctly grotesque Dickensian feel,
this little word is big on attracting verfal fat. Make off your motto and watch your sentences lose excess verbal fat-- good for twitter users and all devotees of clear, concise communications
this little word is big on attracting verfal fat. Make off your motto and watch your sentences lose excess verbal fat-- good for twitter users and all devotees of clear, concise communications
While I can't in all earnest agree with anyone who thinks Ernest In Love is an unappreciated musical masterpiece, this Irish Rep revival makes the most of its modest charms. And as someone sufficiently enamored with metaphors to edit a dictionary devoted to that poetic trope, how can I fail to be charmed by a musical that includes a song in which a lover (Algy in "Lost") declares his love with "For when I dare to think of you, all my metaphors get mixed/when I dare to look at you/ I stand silently transfixed."
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Looped is a triply apt title for the new Broadway show about Tallulah Bankhead as channeled by Valerie Harper-- She arrives loopy and late for an appointment to loop a muffed line into her gothic horror movie Die Mommy Die! Her outrageousness and procrastination knock the film editor for a loop. Good title and performance but weak script.
for a full review, visit curtainup.com -- http://www.curtainup.com/loopedny.html
March 15, 2010
curtainup commented on the word behanded
Christopher Walken's spooky, 47-year hand hunt in A Behanding in Spokane may well prompt lexicographers who seem to have heard only of people being beheaded to legitimize "behanded" -- and also take it off Scrabble's no-no list. For more about this behanding, see http://www.curtainup.com/behandingatspokane.html
March 6, 2010
curtainup commented on the word onomatopoeia
A lesson on this word is not something you'd expect to find in a comic marital drama-- yet, that's exactly what happens in Lucinda Coxon's Happy Now? in whih the main character's husband is a lawyer-turned English teacher who cares deeply about word use and punctuation-- a quick recap of student submission of Onomatopoeia examples like bang, crash and wallop (which he questions)-- he moves on to the well-placed comma. For more about the play seem my review at www.curtainup.com/happynow10.html
February 12, 2010
curtainup commented on the word Bunbury
Yes-- I was just about to edit that pos-- my mistake-- probably because I saw both Misalliance and a musical adaption of Importance of Being Earnest in last 2 weeks-- it's definitely Algernon and Ernest in Importance of. . .NOT Misalliance who used Bunbury
January 1, 2010
curtainup commented on the word Bunbury
The imaginary invalid used by Algernon and Ernest in G.B. Shaw's Importance of Being Earnest to escape from their city and country life obligations also figures in the 4th book in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet: Guy Perrot, one of the British characters, uses it as a code for his Aunt to extricate him from his service in the army when his situation became too untenable.
January 1, 2010
curtainup commented on the list tropes--2
When a metaphor draws its comparison from two illogical and opposite sources, it becomes what the late Theadore M. Bernstein dubbes a "mixaphor"-- the most frequently quoted example is from that impeccable source, Shakespeare, when his melancholy Dane, Hamlet, ponders whether "it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles."'>When a metaphor draws its comparison from two illogical and opposite sources, it becomes what the late Theadore M. Bernstein dubbes a "mixaphor"-- the most frequently quoted example is from that impeccable source, Shakespeare, when his melancholy Dane, Hamlet, ponders whether "it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles."
December 24, 2009
curtainup commented on the list tropes--1
December 24, 2009
curtainup commented on the word Dickensian
While Horton Foote's plays have often been called Checkhovian, Convicts, the middle play of this first part of Orphans Home Cycle has a distinctly grotesque Dickensian feel,
December 22, 2009
curtainup commented on the word Dickensian
While Horton Foote's plays have often been called Checkhovian, Convicts, the middle play of this first part of Orphans Home Cycle has a distinctly grotesque Dickensian feel,
December 22, 2009
curtainup commented on the list verbal-fat-collecting-words
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this little word is big on attracting verfal fat. Make off your motto and watch your sentences lose excess verbal fat-- good for twitter users and all devotees of clear, concise communications
December 22, 2009
curtainup commented on the list verbal-fat-collecting-words
this little word is big on attracting verfal fat. Make off your motto and watch your sentences lose excess verbal fat-- good for twitter users and all devotees of clear, concise communications
December 22, 2009
curtainup commented on the list verbal-fat-collecting-words
this little word is big on attracting verfal fat. Make off your motto and watch your sentences lose excess verbal fat-- good for twitter users and all devotees of clear, concise communications
December 21, 2009
curtainup commented on the word mixed metaphor
While I can't in all earnest agree with anyone who thinks Ernest In Love is an unappreciated musical masterpiece, this Irish Rep revival makes the most of its modest charms. And as someone sufficiently enamored with metaphors to edit a dictionary devoted to that poetic trope, how can I fail to be charmed by a musical that includes a song in which a lover (Algy in "Lost") declares his love with "For when I dare to think of you, all my metaphors get mixed/when I dare to look at you/ I stand silently transfixed."
from review of Ernest In Love at http://www.curtainup.com
December 21, 2009