Word: delle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stranded passengers, who were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commedia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a nostalgic folk-musical version of Sholom Aleichem's tales of life in czarist Russia and Aleichem's gentle dairyman, Tevye, brought to life by Zero Mostel's larger-than-life interpretation...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commcdia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies...
Feeding out the play's entangling plot lines are Sidney Brustein (Gabriel Dell), a disabused idealist who still quivers at the drop of a line from Thoreau, and his wife Iris (Rita Moreno), a would-be Duse who is ready, to stoop to TV commercials. They would rather bicker and brood than curse and make up. In the intervals between their somewhat tiresome spats, the best scenes and acting of the play occur. Top honors go to Alice Ghostley as Iris' proper older sister, an inflated marshmallow of a woman. In one bravura monologue, she tells...
...firm hand that guides Lovely War is Joan Littlewood's, the musical's voice and mind are often Bertolt Brecht's. By decking her men and women in Pierrot and Pierrette outfits, she puts commedia dell'arte garb on the Brechtian notion that in the 20th century the individual is no longer a meaningful entity. It was Brecht, too, who recognized that a nostalgic song put in a satirical context could then be savored for its sentimentality even while it was being bitterly spoofed. Songs like Pack Up Your Troubles and Keep the Home Fires Burning...