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...could have been a teaching pro. Instead, he made his career with RCA as a cable traffic supervisor and concentrated his tutorial talents on his children. He showed Johnny how to hold the club, then sent him to the basement to hit ball after ball into a canvas backdrop. After two years, Johnny began to take lessons from another determined man, John Geertsen, the pro at the San Francisco Country Club. At the end of each lesson, the pro would play "let's pretend." "Johnny," he would say, "you have just one shot left to win the U.S. Open...
Ostensibly this new contract marked an advance from the days when Harvard President Emeritus James Bryant Conant '14 could say that Harvard was coed only in practice not in theory--the war and attendant financial problems alone had formed the backdrop to the 1943 agreement...
...economic condition of the town's residents is the backdrop for the film. Jutra makes his sympathies clear in a few scattered scenes, but he is mainly interested in the personal relations which the economics lie behind. The film's secondary plot takes up the life of Joe Poulin (Lionel Villeneuve), worker at the asbestos mine, who can take the tension and degradation of his job no longer. He quits, and soon sets out for his old job at a lumber camp. Facing nature alone, unfettered by machinery, he will lead, a romantic spirit would suggest, the rustic existence...
EASILY THE MOST inventive aspect of the production is Franco Colavecchia's set. It is starkly unpretentious, and at first glance seems almost too bare. But the backdrop, seen through three rectangular frames, turns out to be a series of projected slides that change with every scene. This clever technique, highly appropriate to the play's emphasis on sight and the technology of seeing, works especially well in the scenes with perspectives of grand interiors. Unfortunately, only those who are sitting smack in the middle of the theater get the full effect...
Press Secretary Ron Ziegler goes through his rituals of evasion like some man we never knew. Arrogance has given way to patience. Scorn, contempt and anger have faded into professions of understanding. He presides in front of his pale blue backdrop every morning with a large, uncomprehending sadness behind his eyes...