Word: delightedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special preview in San Francisco early this month, kids screamed in delight at the film's fantastic effects. At the end, while the lengthy credits rolled, the entire audience applauded for two or three minutes. "It was a supermarket audience, ordinary people," says Lucas, who was there and who still wonders at the reaction. "After something like that, you sit there and say, 'Gee, that's what it's all about...
...David Zippel's lyrics litter the biblical myth of creation with the world of cliches that has since accumulated around the lives of men and women. The primeval couple of this musical are jaded about the facts of life before they've even had any practice with them. Their delight in the proverbial saws that sprout in their minds as spontaneously as noxious weeds and the stereotypical sex roles they struggle to come to terms with contrast ludicrously with the tolerant anarchy of their natural environment. But SIN slathers on too many platitudes, using them with a complacency that allows...
...shag-hairdoed hippies go from the bars and cafes home to their nice, warm, high-rent beds. Alan Bates has lots of mischevious fun as the soldier, and deBroca's direction is free-wheeling; the film tickles, like a feather. And just think; by concentrating hard enough on the delight of going to a unconventional film like this, you can convince yourself that you're just as filled with bottled-up inspiration and love of life as the charming lunatics in deBroca's fantasy...
...book is not the physical bargain that The Great Republic is: its illustrations, though superb, are only black and white. But its accounts have a high color. The mission of Franklin, Deane and Lee to secure France's aid during the Revolution, for example, becomes "a spectacle to delight the gods-smooth Ben, sleek Silas and suspicious Arthur selling a revolution to the most absolute monarch in Europe." Morison was correcting the manuscript of this revision just before he died last year at the age of 88. What a way to go. Mayo Mohs
...tears back the white sheets to reveal the insane maze-like set with everything from bathtubs, to free-standing fireplaces and rows of chandeliers hanging a foot off the ground and a hundred other incongruous objects littered across the stage. As in the first act, there is peripatetic delight in easily-overlooked details, like a severed mannequin hand here, or a broken champagne glass there. And it is in this serendipitous affection for strange objects, sounds and images that the main pleasure of the production comes...