Word: curtained
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...curtain opens on six squiggled screens all in a row, that begin to sway alternately back and forth, by some mysterious support just barely maintaining their balance. Magically the fantasy fence stands erect and splits apart like sliding doors unearthing a dancer in the expected void. Like a movie where superimposition pops a new figure in view out of nothingness, the stage gradually becomes blocked in with one, two, and sometimes six dancers. Even with their skill of wheel-like locomotion, Russia's Moisey dancers could not have oiled these with any more slipperiness or spontaneity...
...puts a blot, a mere stain like a petal, a butterfly upon a sheet of paper and dares not touch it, lest its charm be lost. His portraits remind me of the painter in Balzac's Chefd' oeuvre inconnu, laboring his canvas for years and when he draws the curtain to show the masterpiece, lo, there is nothing...
Bread and Circuses Puppet Theater contributed a gorilla skit entitled "Macthieu" to no one's edification. S. Eric Rayman '73, Lampoon Hautboy, brought the proverbial curtain down on his head with a reading of telegrams to N. V. Thieu that included...
...realistic props that Malamud has so expertly designed are yanked away, and the two writers assume the proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...
...opening of the new season on children's television traditionally coincides with the start of the school year. Last week's curtain-raising on the fall schedule for children was accompanied by a fanfare of advertising promising, as CBS put it, "quality programming for the young." Unfortunately, few of the shows live up to that billing. Though all three networks are preparing occasional specials for other time slots, Saturday morning-the most concentrated stretch of children's television-remains a particularly bleak wasteland, where flashes of wit or originality are rarely seen...