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Word: asprawl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passive complacencies. Practically, TV Producer Colin Callender and Director Jim Goddard had two options. They could create a new production for television, with naturalistic sets and discrete scenes, thus reducing the grand babble to Masterpiece Theater whispers. Or they could allow the actors to trace their familiar patterns, asprawl on the big stage, and catch as catch can. They chose the latter, and it was a wise choice; now this epochal production is preserved as fact, not as the fond memory of the 125,000 or so theatergoers lucky enough to have seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Pageant Through a Peephole | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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