Word: decorative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white fuselage was badly in need of a bath or a paint job. Also like the Concorde, the Tu-144 had a small cabin with narrow aisles and elbow-to-elbow seating; it carried a maximum of 140 passengers (the Concorde carries only 100). The inaugural aircraft lacked posh decor. Several of its ceiling panels were ajar, service trays got stuck, and window shades slipped down without being pulled...
...present instance, he and Co-Writer Mardik Martin show no more interest in exploring the real film star than did the early moguls. As usual, Russell hammers one over the head with gaudy and excessive cliches of a bygone era's decor. They have a certain visual excitement, but they say more about his own feverish temperament than about the spirit of the age. The use of Rudolf Nureyev for Rudolph Valentino was canny in conception-both men display an animal magnetism that audiences have found irresistible. But Rudy I had a very different appeal from Rudy...
...fault of this particular production. The theater is tiny (about one hundred seats on three sides of a floor-level stage), and which brings the audience uncomfortably close to the intense emotionality onstage. Watching the play becomes like eavesdropping on the people who live through the fire-door. The decor and lighting never change, and the costumes look as though they'd been thrown together out of somebody's attic...
...LOEB spared nothing in its efforts to make the production interesting. The set, a bedroom with a fourposter in the center, never changes except in decor, but director Judith Haskell set it on a turntable to give the audience something to think about. The problem, however, is that all too often it ends up looking like a revolving tableau rather than a play. The effect is hardly likely to be either effective or surprising through two full acts. Haskell gives us one interesting moment, when the two actors make themselves up for old age onstage, but for the rest, well...
Farther up the block, on Mass Ave, you'll find the local Big Pink--the Hong Kong Restaurant, or simply "the Kong." Although the food found in the first floor violates Geneva convention provisions regarding biological warfare, the bar upstairs has wonderfully tacky decor, moderately-priced good drinks, and a jukebox featuring Frank Sinatra singing "My Way." Local high school toughs take over on weekends, but during the week, Dino DiLaurentiis is right--"People gonna love Kong...