Example sentences for: lyman

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  • The legendary Japanese director of such films as Rashomon , The Seven Samurai , and Ran is canonized: "one of the handful of truly important directors that the cinema has produced" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Steven Spielberg calls him "the pictorial Shakespeare of our time."

  • Critics applaud the selection of the absurdist Italian playwright, even while calling him the "most obscure Nobel winner" in years (David Streitfeld, the Washington Post ). Fo's work, especially Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), is celebrated for combining trenchant left-wing satire with slapstick humor "reminiscent of vintage Marx Brothers" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Conservative critics echo the Vatican, which condemned the choice of the anti-clericalist and ex-Communist as an act that "has surpassed all imagination."


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