Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Project's content varied from vaudeville revivals to avant-garde experimentation, its sources from Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw to undiscovered playwrights, its performers from an aging generation whose formative experiences were in tent shows, travelling troupes, and vaudeville theaters to an energetic new generation that would dominate American entertainment for years to come, a crew that included Orson Welles and John Houseman, Will Geer and John Huston, E.G. Marshall and Joseph Cotton...
...sure, there were problems within these Projects. Much of the output was undistinguished; many Theatre Project productions seem in retrospect one-dimensional, too self-consciously didactic. And conflicts, perhaps inevitable, arose between artistic purpose and political pressures. The political content of the Theatre Project drew the wrath of Congressional critics and ultimately contributed, at least in part, to the withdrawal of Congressional funding in 1939. Nor were pressures only external: despite the "uncensored" mandate, productions thought too controversial were occasionally postponed. By 1938, Welles and Houseman had left the Project in just such a dispute...
...beginning Orton sat at Halliwell's feet, content to type his novels. Gradually he began making suggestions, then started collaborating. Finally he struck out on his own, demonstrating a talent for the comic and bizarre that Halliwell could admire but never imitate. As Orton's confidence grew, Halliwell's diminished, leaving, at the end, only the dangerous embers of envy and resentment...
...Scott-Heron/Jackson go far enough and others wonder why they venture so far. Secrets is Scott-Heron/Jackson at their most subdued level. Bridges, the last album prior to Secrets, contains more music and less rhetoric. South Africa to South Carolina, released in 1976, is highly political in content and feverish in rhythm. Secrets manages to strike a balance between these two modes of music. All of their albums include a track about a revolution; in "Third World Revolution," the blend of drums, tenor saxophone and fast-paced lyrics account for the only track reminiscent of the South Africa...
...market opening up on the mainland, it may be years before the Chinese can afford to pay for all they want. Among other things, Chinese oil reserves, on which Peking heavily counts to earn cash, are afflicted by a number of serious technical problems including a high wax content and great difficulty in extraction owing to geological structure...