Word: banqueteer
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...handling of the banquet scene is superb. Shakespeare intended that someone impersonating a ghost should actually appear here twice; and it was always done this way from his day until Kemble's production of 1794. Nonetheless, it is wrong. And director Houseman was right to substitute a weak red spotlight instead (which has the added virtue of avoiding a decision as to whether one of the two appearances is the ghost of Duncan rather than of Banquo). The apparitions are hallucinatory and visible only to Macbeth. It makes no more sense to bring in a ghost visible...
With guests scattered and Macbeth alone, Colicos comes downstage and puts a hand to his temple as though plagued by a fearsome migraine. The banquet hall darkens and is subjected to a continuously moving mottled light, whereupon we hear the Witches for the last time. This staging makes it seem that Macbeth's final encounter with the Witches is one more hallucination...
...National Committee on U.S. China Relations held a three-day seminar last week for leading American journalists. At the banquet Thursday night, John K. Fairbank delivered the following exterporaneous speech. Fairbank is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center...
...oversized bed, making a shambles of sets and sense. In scenes suffused with unearthly tints and shades, the girls attack each other with scissors and cut off each other's heads, wear butterflies instead of bikinis, eat food ads instead of food, swing from a chandelier over a banquet table they have just tromped into a mangled mess...
...ordained Church of the Brethren minister. He neither smokes nor drinks, and his favorite expletive is "Smoly Hoke!" Their emphasis being on clean living, the TV commercials he makes for Wheaties are in perfect character. So are the 80-odd speeches that Richards delivers on the banquet circuit each year, appearances liberally laced with a can-do gospel that is equal parts Norman Vincent Peale and Knute Rockne...