Word: cowards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pinter also overturns one's stylistic expectations. When the English upper crust gets to pip-pipping about infidelity, the viewer settles back prepared for a comedy of manners. What he gets here is very little comedy, a great many mannerisms, and none of the sentiment that Noel Coward used to employ to make things come right at the final curtain. Betrayal must be understood, then, as a critique of a theatrical style and of unthinking audiences who have been having an amoral laugh and a tickle with it for years...
...fascinating, if familiar, process. When songs have that magic in them, they take on strange powers of recall. Commenting on a Noel Coward song, a character in Coward's Private Lives remarks: "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." Songs eerily consolidate the memory, making obscure chemical connections in the brain. They conjure up moments out of time. They reconstitute things long gone, to the point that smells and images and a precise forgotten ache of the heart return hauntingly for a moment. The dramatization that occurs in the mind is intimate and utterly private. One has only to hear...
...real-life Queen and Knave of Hearts (Taylor and Burton) have been plotting a return to Broadway in Noel Coward's Private Lives. Meanwhile, Richard's daughter Kate Burton (by his first wife Sybil) has finished her Coward duties with George C. Scott in Present Laughter, and is moving on to Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. The Broadway show is set to open on Dec. 23, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth and the 50th anniversary of Actress Eva Le Gallienne's original stage presentation. Inspired by the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel...
...they don't know what it's all about, I'll sing things I know they like, like On the Sunny Side of the Street. But if I see they're sophisticated, I'll sing something like / Travel Alone, which Noel Coward wrote for me. I seldom sing it because the home folks wouldn't know what I was talking about...
...coward," said Shattuck after the game of the ref. "Even the B.U. coach came up to me afterwards and said," You were robbed...