Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
Federal Judge George Hart ruled Thursday that he was powerless to act on a suit challenging the constitutionality of a letter sent last fall to the nation's local draft boards by Selective Service System Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey...
...Leonard Bernstein and non-writers as Mike Nichols. Lantz is particularly adept at movie roles. "You have to know the territory," he explains. "You must know the real dope -who is hot, who are the bankable elements of a deal, who has the ear of an important star or director. Everything is interrelated. Every work of art can be commercially exploited, can go into anything, become anything...
...Mary" by the Association: "Desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks whose sickness is the games they play.") promises a big stick production, easy to follow, fun to see. Desire isn't easy to follow. Without resorting to gimmicks--superimposition, fast motion, slow motion, whizbang lab work--director Tim Hunter manages to sideswipe crusted habits and expectations of perception, daring us to see just a little more than we see. Let me introduce a critical term, a metaphor, a clue for everybody. This is a marijuana movie, Mary Jane on a magical mystery tour...
...rest of the cast--the characters with which the Author is working--share one general flaw that director Christopher Arnold could have eliminated with a firmer hand. Their readings are all uncertain, with no one quite sure just which words they should be emphasizing, which laughs they should be expecting and which pauses they should be holding. John Brady, as the police superintendent, is particularly afflicted...