Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CABARET utilizes expressionistic techniques to re-create the frenzied, bitter gaiety of prewar Berlin. While its framing is brilliantly brassy, its moods strikingly defined, the subject matter of the book is dull and amorphous...
...musical, Cabaret, is a garish apparition indeed. He twists his scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during the black dawn of the Nazis...
...staging was fittingly roughhewn and seafaring. But for most of the audience, the true center of interest was the Met debut of British Conductor Colin Davis. One of the world's top young maestros, Davis, along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta and the Berlin Radio Orchestra's Lorin Maazel, is among the front-running candidates to succeed Leonard Bernstein when he steps down as musical director of the New York Philharmonic...
...Vicki Baum, was a gaudy old fleabag with a startling number of star boarders: Greta Garbo, the Barrymore brothers, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt. The new movie, based on a 1965 bestseller by Arthur Hailey that was little more than bum Baum, transposes the premises from Berlin to New Orleans but still provides the customers with a generous supply of clean towels and dirty people...
...command pilot qualified to fly 27 types of aircraft, Posvar flew four-engine C-54 transports in the Berlin airlift before taking up his teaching duties at Colorado Springs in 1957. Then 32, he was the youngest full professor ever to serve at one of the na tion's service academies. Insisting that "anything can stand the fresh air of discussion" in a military classroom, Posvar encouraged original thinking by cadets. He became head of the academy's social sciences division...