Word: archings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kitchen which he has turned into an abstraction: he is content to push people around, with a fleeting, hysterical grin on his face, asking for dreams that he himself cannot deliver. "Games are for imagining new things, new ways to be," he pants while stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound...
...seat Lyttelton, where the company will make its debut, is a traditional proscenium arch house with the subdued intimacy of a room one might associate with chamber music. No ticket holder can complain about his point of vantage. The raked, beige, tufted seats offer sight lines of geometric clarity. It is as if the air had been filtered for purer vision. The particular largesse of the Lyttelton is a side stage sealed off from the main stage by a soundproof door. A visiting company from the provinces or abroad-and Hall intends to invite them -can mount...
...evolution from the proscenium arch of the playwright to the zygomatic arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...
...coarse, a kind of anemic succubus. She is choking on her own rage, not fighting against her desperation. There is no sympathy in her. It is impossible to tell why men are so drawn to her. Hedda must be a woman of sensuous deceits. Jackson's is an arch, nearly campy portrayal, full of snarling asides of self-pity. The performance might work in The Little Foxes; here, it looks like parody...
Malek's clipped, matter-of-fact insistence that Watergate didn't effect him or his outlook much reflects the Malek of dossier number two: an arch-typical straight arrow who sped up an upwardly mobile path in the military and in business, and found that political realities cramped his style and ultimately dragged him down into a quagmire he says he didn't see forming...