McGrath punctuates the narrative action with Charlie's insights.
Strong on narrative action but at times weak on logic, "it is never dull," Sayers wrote.
The dialogue is lost, but the score stands on its own, with a series of meditative scenes replacing narrative action.
There is not much dialogue, and the narrative action, such as it is, is slow and deliberate.
The Iliad offers "fast, clear, several-stranded narrative, action, character, violence", as the poet Christopher Logue (1926-2011) put it.
In telling Joan's story, Helen Castor has decided to make Joan herself present for only a third of the narrative action.
It starts like a rocket, with the narrative action divided between 14-year-old San Franciscan Gwen and her radio-producer father Phil.
The paintings are packed to bursting with narrative action, graphic improvisation and echoes of artists like Barry McGee, Chris Johannson, Lari Pittman and R. Crumb.
And a narrative action first described and then imitated, like this, from the album's first track, "The Sing": The only words I've said today are beer and thank you Beer.../Thank you/Beer... Thank you Beer.
His ability to arrest narrative action at the moment of its greatest dramatic impact and the vigorous gestures and animated expressions of the figures account for the merit of his panel.
