Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philanthropist, produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theater, opens literally with a bang. A young playwright blows his brains out in the lodgings of a philologist. Then it settles down into a satirical, searching account of the philologist's quest for some spiritual anagram for happiness. Such ups and downs occur throughout the play. The ups are sufficiently impressive that it is hard to believe that the author, Christopher Hampton, is only 24. Yet it remains for a leading actor, Alec McCowen, to lift the production as a whole onto a plane of compelling theater...
...took a 4-to-1 lead. The National Leaguers, powered by the Giants' Dick Dietz and Willie McCovey, finally woke up in the ninth to tie the score and send the game into extra innings. The spectators who remained, including Richard Nixon, were rewarded with a rare slam-bang finish...
...second leg of the first race, for example, Valiant was threatening to take the lead when her genoa jib ripped. In the next race, Valiant was troubled by the wash from the 125-boat spectator fleet, a faulty backstay and a spinnaker sheet that snapped with a sharp bang, causing the sail to flap wildly until the crew could wrestle it down. During a race against Heritage later in the week, Intrepid's spinnaker halyard jammed, and she had to limp along like a wounded bird until a crewman was hoisted aloft in a bosun's chair...
Cued by Clap-Stick. Correspondingly, Bergman's troupe are less actors than musicians. Cued by the bang of a cinematographer's clap-stick, each performer is allowed to stop the flow of the film and analyze the character that he or she is portraying. That now-familiar device stems from what Brecht called the V-Effekt: estranging the audience from the action. Merely watching, say Brecht and Bergman, is not enough. Reality has rent the artist's fabric; now he forces it to pierce the viewer's mind...
...promising future. Besides illuminating the complex mechanisms of stellar evolution and the building of elements, it could yield important clues to the origin of the universe. By measuring the effect on interstellar molecules of the so-called background radiation* (believed to be the faint remnant of the "big bang" that, according to one theory, created the universe), astronomers may learn more about the primordial explosion. Most intriguing of all, the molecules could provide tantalizing evidence of lifebuilding far from earth...