Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only around Hour Five, long, long after delirious theatregoers have been scurrying about proclaiming it's the greatest day they've ever spent in the theatre. Nothing's inherently objectionable about an immense outpouring of love, but the flip side of this is the palpable hate and discomfort audiences display in the face of something they're less sure of, something that demands more than a tough backside and a fat pocketbook...
...blank, muddy "reality" that the rest of these plays have a foot in. Mark Milliken has staged Fits and Starts with merry rambunctiousness, and the piece is fetchingly danced by Julia Newton, an utterly charming waif. Annette Miller and John Adair, though, as mother and dog respectively, again display little variety or subtlety in their delivery...
...astonishing display of concern. The protesters are primarily young, but older people join in as well, swelling the ranks from curb to curb, wall-to-wall humanity stretching as far as the eye can see. Some of the demonstrators wear elaborate costumes, macabre bursts of imagination that pantomime the approach of death. Others carry posters and papier-mâché displays, an explosion of street art mocking the U.S., tearing with outrageous simplicity at the fabric of mutual interest that the U.S. and Western Europe have woven so patiently for 30 years. The signs vilify: "We are not America's Guinea...
...voice now has the gravity of years; she has barely a line to speak in the film's first hour, and too many silly words in the second. But she is still a radiant presence, and she blesses the end of They All Laughed with a display of poignant maturity. One would gladly pay to hear her read the Bel Air phone book. One would not be surprised to know that was Bogdanovich's next project...
...aerial display commenced on Harvard's first possession of the second quarter with a perfectly executed screen pass that clicked for a 78-yard touchdown. The gridders, playing no-holds arred football in their last game of the year, went for the two-point conversion and reached paydirt on a slick run around...