Word: drumbeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bleak altar half hidden by incense smoke holds down the front of the stage. Shaman figures appear, chanting to a kind of voodoo drumbeat. On the altar, the body of a child is laid. The darkness is pierced by a primal scream. A priest plunges his hand into the human sacrifice and lifts out the heart, thrusting it, like a savage challenge, toward the civilized middle-class audience at Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater...
...right time in the right role, is his fundamental resource. As a great actor, he achieves something new in every part?something of himself reborn, fathered by insight, nurtured by skill and imagination. Scott also offers something more. Always, just below the surface, there is an incessant drumbeat of anger. Says Jose Ferrer, who directed him in The Andersonville Trial on Broadway: "It's a concentrated fury, a sense of inner rage, a kind of controlled madness...
...into the field." Moreover, Nixon claimed, the disruption of enemy supply lines already "assures even more the success of our troop-withdrawal program." Nixon hinted that in April he may announce an acceleration of the present withdrawal pace of 12,500 men per month. Complaining about "a drumbeat of suggestion . . . night after night on television" that the Laos incursion "isn't going to work," he told newsmen that if he is proved right "what you say now doesn't make any difference...