Word: ancestors
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...idea is not simply to mike the actors and jack up their volume; Breuer says that in wedding the aural techniques of radio and film to the visual images of a stage, he is using conventions the audience already understands but has never seen yoked together. The ancestor of this idea is the film director's voice-over: "It's theater about the way you think. When you think, there's about the way you think. When you think, there's a voice in your head, like someone speaking in your ear, and then there are abstract images...
...Metropolitan's show, imported after a successful five-month run at the British Museum, offers us a different sort of Viking: the monster chez lui, a more conscientious and stolid fellow, the rude ancestor of the modern Volvo executive. He does not even have a horned helmet -a Wagnerian embellishment on the plain iron cap he actually wore in battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against...
...resemble orthodox Protestantism. The movement was founded in 1921. It prospered because the colonial Belgian government considered Kimbangu a troublemaker and martyred him by throwing him into prison, where he later died. Many of the independent churches are openly syncretistic, putting the merest Christian overlay upon witchcraft, sorcery and ancestor worship...
...question has daunted anthropologists ever since 1871, when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man. How did the puny early ancestor of modern man defend himself against predators? More than 3½ million years ago, he stood only 120 cm to 140 cm (48 in. to 56 in.), too short to wield a heavy club effectively. For another million years or so, his brain was not developed enough to conceive of fashioning stone weapons. Yet despite the presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan...
Ricker uses vintage Kansas City material sparingly enough to leave his audience hungry for more. Sublime recordings of "South" and "Moten Swing" by the Benny Moten Orchestra, descendant of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils and ancestor of the Count Basie band, play under the opening and closing credits; the only other period music accompanies the brief snippets of antique footage--Basie, Turner, Young, Parker--that pepper the body of the film. These are truly gratifying. "We were doing rock and roll before anybody heard of it." Turner grumbles. We have all heard this sort of talk before...