Word: curtain
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...Made the Movies. Richard Shickel's intelligent documentary series on film directors. Tonight: The work of Alfred Hitchcock, with clips from "Saboteur" (1942), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), "North By Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960), "The Birds" (1963), "Torn Curtain" (1966) and "Frenzy" (1972). Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour...
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G completed the concert with half a dozen curtain calls and rounds of applause. Richard Kogan, in his solo performance, achieved a combination of passion and sweetness expressed through an extraordinary technique that no other pianist at Harvard has paralleled. Pianistically, the Fourth Concerto is probably the most difficult of the five Beethoven wrote. But Kogan played the intricate passages of trills and double thirds seemingly without effort, while on a large scale he projected a carefully balanced scheme of dynamics that caught and held the audience's attention. Combined with the grandeur...
...Made the Movies. An interesting probe into Alfred Hitchcock with clips of: gruesome murders in Psycho (1960) and Torn Curtain (1966); psychopaths in Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Frenzy (1972); and suspense in North by Northwest (1959), Saboteur (1942) and The Birds (1963). Hitchcock is the only film director who has consistently sent pulses through film viewers' nervous systems that feel like 1000 kilowatt bursts of electricity--most critics call that "fear" for lack of a better word. Ch. 2, 8 p.m., 1 hour. Repeat...
...tale illustrates the astonishing behind-the-scenes influence wielded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, 75, the most powerful remaining member of a vanishing breed of Japanese kingmakers known as kuromaku. The word translates literally as black curtain,* but the closest equivalent in American slang of the power it connotes is godfather. Through his enormous fortune (his real estate holdings alone are estimated at $71.4 million) and the huge store of giri (moral obligations) he has accumulated over the years by dispensing favors and finances, Sasakawa has a puissance that any American influence peddler would envy...
...most of the lines in the show, gives a fine performance under difficult circumstances. Still, the play and the production are not too satisfying. Geoff Garin's review appears on page two of this issue. Tickets for the weekend cost $5.95. Tonight's show begins at 8, tomorrow the curtain goes...