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But while Stoppard has slummed a bit for the big screen, he has done some of his most serious and demanding work for the small one: Professional Foul , a 1977 BBC commission, addressed the moral dilemmas faced by a group of English academics at a philosophical conference in Prague; and Squaring the Circle: Poland 1980-81 , broadcast in 1984, brought the playful self-consciousness of Travesties to the deadly serious events surrounding the Lenin Shipyard strike and the subsequent government crackdown.
There was space in that little white chapel at the start of the show to include an example of the trompe l'oeil American masters William Harnett and John Peto, contemporaries of Cézanne's, who are just as much founders of modern still life as Cézanne, and whose more playful spirit is just as tangible in the works at MoMA.
Another group of names--a group Hanks and Hodges call imperative surnames, or names formed by the joining of a verb-stem and a noun--displays an especially playful method of Italian scurrility.
urutora `ultra' + naon, a playful inversion of onna `woman'
Craft set himself up as Stravinsky's amanuensis, and his apercus are well worth reading; but when he mislabels the tile of Philip Larkin's Required Writing as Required Reading , he kills Larkin's playful title.