Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With no concrete "action" in the play it was crucial for director Dan Freudenberger and his actors to emphasize character and establish distinct, consistent styles for each role. They did so brilliantly. Each actor had a characteristic walk, and vocal tone. Even the set of their mouths was distinctive. I. Mackenzie Lamb as Davies rasped out his lines with twitching lips and lolling tongue. Aston, played by Tom Jones, moved his lips, slowly, evenly, methodically, biting and clenching them only in his hypnotic description of an electric shock treatment. James Shuman as Mick would harass Davies, using an exaggerated enunciation...
...life. Many of the new nations do not have minimal communications and transportation, or enough educated men to fill a new country's needs. In some cases, arbitrary national boundaries cut across ethnic groups, mock the rational use of resources, and defy any foreseeable hope of achieving distinct national identity...
...short, Gielgud is never afraid to play Ivanov to the hilt. He fully, uses his absolute mastery of technique -- spewing lines at fantastic speed which still remain intelligible, of keeping his hands in constant motion. Just before his death, within the space of 90 seconds Ivanov goes through three distinct phases--black laughter, broken despair, and suicidal resolve. This is theatricality in the grand manner, and Gielgud carries it off. His Ivanov has the desperation and the savagery, and his suicide is not only believable, it is inevitable...
...announced that the police and armed forces have so far seized nearly $1,000,000 in contraband. Indicative of the crackdown, the price of a pack of smuggled U.S.-made "Blue Seal" cigarettes in Manila has climbed in the past month from the normal 500 to 650, suggesting a distinct and abrupt shortage...
Health authorities had estimated that the state contained 52,000 children, aged one to twelve, who had never had measles or been vaccinated against it. Faced with mounting evidence that ordinary red or "seven-day" measles, as distinct from German measles, kills or cripples more children than had previously been recognized, the Rhode Island Medical Society decided on a blitz campaign to "end measles now, once and for all," within its borders...