Word: backcloths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wide-eyed, he wanders the playing area, tapping the boards with his heel, touching the backcloth bemusedly, imparting the stagestruck youth's romantic awe for the centuries of tradition gathered in the shadows of any theater...
...curiously, it has been largely ignored by social scientists in favor of other human attachments: the sexual union, the family, the group. "This may be a serious mistake," writes University of Leicester Psychologist Derek Wright, 43, in Britain's New Society magazine. "Friendship forms the unobtrusive backcloth on which we play out our professional, sexual and familial lives...
...very vigorous. The basis of the comic subplot is the duping of Malvolio, the puritanical steward, by a group of cheerful tosspots--a little joke which has occasionally struck critics as cruel, since Malvolio is at one point chained in a dungeon as a madman. Before Mr. Heeley's backcloth, under Mr. Benthall's guidance, it appears a mild, if merry, escapade, instinct with finesse...
...Count of Monte-Cristo). In this big, revealing study, France's Andrè Maurois tries to put the matter in a different light. He sees three generations of the Dumas dynasty as three different expressions of a single theme: "For a whole century [they] played out, against a backcloth of France, the finest of all dramas-their life...
...altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...
| 1 |