1) David Mamet has long been considered the leading American playwright of his generation.

2) Mamet has never pretended to be a long-haul writer and sees time the way the early Elizabethans did, as a destroyer.

3) IT IS easy to recognise a David Mamet play.

4) Mr. Pudnick recalled that David Mamet had once mentioned changing planeswhen he heard this individual was on the same flight.

5) David Mamet is perhaps most famous for his Pulitzer Prize–winning plays, but the author, playwright and essayist was also an Oscar nominee for screenwriting ( The Verdict and Wag the Dog ).

6) As a polemicist Mr Mamet is impressive—but at the cost of intellectual honesty.

7) This paper will discuss how David Mamet employs dramatic language in his famous drama House of Games, and concludes that modern dramatic dialogue is more and more oralized and naturalized.

8) But as Mr Mamet makes clear , consciousness alone won't save anyone.

9) Mamet, whose plays often address themes of masculinity, has not said what the play is about, but a producer told The New York Times, "I think the title speaks for itself."

10) The effect is clever, especially when Mr Mamet peppers the script with incisive one-liners.

11) In his treatise on directing, Mamet emphasizes the idea that the director must, above all else, think visually.

12) Ann Black, the central figure in State and Main, is, however,[http:///mamet.html] classic Mamet.

13) Most concerned with the power and treachery of language, Mamet remains American theatre's most urgent five-letter word.

14) Kerry had minor roles as an actor in the David Mamet films "State and Main" and "Spartan."

15) Maybe so, but as an apostate from liberalism Mr Mamet has simply embraced a new religion—with all the excessive zeal of the recent convert.

16) And, in one of the most anticipated events, American playwright David Mamet premieres a new play in the fall called "Race."

1) David Mamet has long been considered the leading American playwright of his generation.