Word: earlied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mark Mazzarella, a 19-year-old college sophomore. But the cost of going for such theatrical pizazz was a loss of psychological depth. Houdini offered almost no plot, almost no human interplay. Throughout the evening, a large portrait of the magician stared out at the performers from the ear of the stage, as if challenging them to account for his mysterious driven nature. The tricks, the career, the public appropriation of him as a hero were all here. But the man himself? Once again, he escaped. - Christopher Porterfield
...there is no denying the opening scene's strong visual impact. Indeed the production generally serves the eye a good deal better than it serves the ear. The play contains a lot of magic and spectacle, handled most ingeniously (and without the 140-man stage crew that Charles Kean needed in 1857). When Miranda is put to sleep, she slumbers levitated a couple of feet above ground. The instantaneous appearance and disappearance of the banquet (borrowed from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid) is truly miraculous, as are the periodic flashes of St. Elmo's fire all over the place...
Although Caddell carries a White House pass, he is not an official member of the President's staff. He relishes his role as a total outsider who has the President's ear. Says Caddell: "I give him ideas that he may not have heard from others." Caddell operates two polling firms out of Cambridge, Mass. One company is hired by politicians; the other supplies surveys to more than 20 major U.S. corporations for an annual fee of about $20,000 each. Caddell's reports to Carter use data from both firms, and the Democratic National Committee picks...
...some advice, the crusty Speaker, who has long called the new chief of staff "Hannibal Jerkin," scolded the White House aide about his failure to deal with Congress. Said the Speaker: "There should be close relations between the Congress and the man who has the President's ear. I've never understood why he wasn't at the leadership breakfasts." But by meeting's end O'Neill had turned avuncular, giving Jordan a list of names of Congressmen and key aides he should get to know. Concluded the Speaker: "Bygones are bygones...
Dire Straits: Communiqué (Warner Bros.) and The Cars: Candy-O (Elektra) are two follow-ups to albums that were large -and largely surprise-hits some months back. Both offer again pretty much the same bill of fare, without the single tune that snags your ear straight off and streamlines the journey to the Top Ten. The Cars, a Boston band, go big for flash, echo and cosmic inconclusion. Dire Straits are English and purvey a sort of oblique narrative rock so relaxed and laid back, with its easygoing guitar licks and sleepytime vocals, that the record could have been...