Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicholson always has an aura of unnatural tension around him--he seems to wait a split second too long before reacting, and even then all of this extremes, violent or boyish, flash out of those same, perpetually half-shut eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face hardening now into some sort of death mask. Nicholson doesn't try to play Chambers as the twenty-three year old punk Cain envisioned. Instead he slouches around like a bored satyr. He seems to revel in his decay, in his unnerving ability to play an utterly reptilian Don Juan...
...PRODUCTION IS, in spots, sloppily executed, with lack of rehearsal, perhaps, contributing to an aura of tentativeness, the performers occasionally sagging like the deadly Persian rugs that hang over the stage. Mayer has staged his play in a series of tableaux, the colorfully costumed actors moving dutifully into position, one character usually wandering aimlessly in the middle. Act One has a lot of exposition, a lot of aimless wandering: in Act Two the plot perks up and Mayer's comic invention peaks. Certainly this is sped along by the appearance of the Genie of the Lamp, whose entrances and exits...
Perhaps it is Ronald Reagan's pervasive faith in pageantry that set the stage. Whatever its origins, that sense of dignity is an important part of the new Administration's appeal in these first tender weeks. Dignity is not leadership, but it creates an aura of care and concern...
...latest translated work, the collection of short storied Burnt Water was written over the years of 1954-80, "as satellites around certain novels so they have something of the quality of the novel I was writing at the time. One can therefore find similarities to such novels as Aura, A Change of Skin, The Death of Artemio Cruz in these stories...
Through it all, he retained his aura of great promise. In 1976-77, Walton's only season free of injuries, he took the Trail Blazers to the league championship and won the Most Valuable Player award in the playoffs. The following year, Portland again jumped off to an early lead. But midway through the season, Walton broke the tarsal navicular bone in his left foot, just under the ankle. Though hobbled, he returned for the playoffs...