anatomization

The anatomization of beauty — wanting Beyoncé’s eyes or Angelina Jolie’s lips — was well underway.

In early reviews of the book — which was, until after her death in 1995, generally received as genre entertainment rather than the mordant anatomization of American class that it is — the character was often described as a sociopath.

Anna Deavere Smith’s 1992 anatomization of the Crown Heights riots ends its run.

Those who examine, say, his comparison of the role of the provinces in “Tristram Shandy” and the novels of Thackeray may well be unaware of “Lombard Street,” his tour de force anatomization of the psychology of finance and banking panics and of the sociology of the London money market.

But it’s well worth seeing, both for its merciless anatomization of the country’s post-Ceausescu social order and for Gheorghiu’s stupendous central performance as a mother so monstrous she makes Medea look like a pushover.