It is difficult to break free of the formulaic storytelling arc of win, loss and comeback.
In The Mikado, Philip Voss and David Bamber are superb as long-term lovers who, in a mere 20 minutes, go through a huge arc of hope, loss and bitterness, clinging to and shrinking from each other while rooted to the spot.
The result is confusion, a braided arc of love, memory and loss, whose details keep slipping through your fingers.
He describes the character's arc as finally confronting the pain of loss that he has deferred for years by fighting criminals balanced against the need to internalize that pain lest he give into his emotions and become the killer the city already believes him to be.
Talk story about noteworthy clocks in & around N. Y. Paramount clock, heckled by high winds, sometimes blew tips of the hands through a quivering arc of 30 degrees, some days causing loss of 10 m. every hour.
By John M. Woodburn, Theodore Pratt, and James Thurber The New Yorker, April 7 , 1928P. 17 Talk story about noteworthy clocks in & around N. Y. Paramount clock, heckled by high winds, sometimes blew tips of the hands through a quivering arc of 30 degrees, some days causing loss of 10 m. every hour.
The New Yorker, April 7 , 1928P. 17 Talk story about noteworthy clocks in & around N. Y. Paramount clock, heckled by high winds, sometimes blew tips of the hands through a quivering arc of 30 degrees, some days causing loss of 10 m. every hour.
His sudden "loss" at the hands of the witches -- loss of memory, loss of self, loss of control -- could be the greatest arc of this season.
Function of loss assessors.
