Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nevertheless] she continued the revisions and finally accompanied the ballet on tour in the major cities. Back in Peking, she went with Premier Chou to another performance, which had been much revised. His calling it "real revolution" gratified her. After the final curtain she and the Premier went backstage to congratulate the dancers and musicians who had remained loyal to her throughout the battles of creation...
...could go behind the curtain...
...James Ensor, and in the paintings he made in the last two decades of the 19th century, the characters and props of the demonic tradition take their final curtain call: the persecuted Christ, the scrawny monsters, the whole malevolent apparatus of hooks and claws, skeletons and distended orifices, grimacing masks and threatening crowds that had served European artists so well up to the death of Goya. The Guggenheim Museum's current retrospective of Ensor, more than 110 pieces, tries to present him as a modern artist, which he was not. Ensor's was a solo...
...theatrical terminology is not a mistake. Herb Gardner has not so much adapted his Broadway comedy as retyped it in screenplay form. Despite a fair amount of New York City location shooting, the old act breaks are so apparent in the movie that it is as if a curtain had fallen to mark them off. Worse, the dialogue retains its aimed-at-the-balcony archness, a self-conscious cuteness that destroys any hope of inducing a suspension of disbelief. Nobody -thank heaven-talks like this for more than a few moments at a time, and two hours of such highly...
Since 1975, the Project has been staging its soft-core fantasies-no sex acts or nudity-before small, mostly middle-class audiences. Given the subject matter, the show is relentlessly high-minded. Before curtain time, Lowndes moves among the audience with the professional warmth of a good nurse, offering to supply one man with the names of effective therapists and sexologists, pointing out to another that Gladstone, Rousseau and Aristotle were good men -and masochists...