Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these themes might have stung the play into fitful life if it were not smothered in rhetoric. Danton inhales moral smog and exhales bombast. Herbert Blau is credited with translating the German; he has assuredly embalmed the English. Thanks to Blau, Robespierre has been given an outward resemblance to Barry Goldwater. This is a political subtlety fully worthy of the mentality that-in a since-deleted program note-linked Lyndon B. Johnson and Mao Tse-tung as fellow tyrants. Thanks to Blau, too, the direction resembles a wind machine blowing actors around like autumn leaves...
Berkeley Square trundles a young American back in time from 1928 to 1784, when he falls hopelessly in love with an impoverished girl of the English nobility. Clear Day puts a kooky American girl named Daisy Gamble (Barbara Harris) into a hypnotic trance and transports her back to 1794, when she was the bride of the rakish Edward Moncrief, and was destined to drown in the shipwreck of the Trelawny. With this paleo-romantic glue, Lerner tries to stick together a libretto incongruously torn between the pseudo science of extrasensory perception and the pseudo metaphysics of reincarnation...
...fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
...London-based quick-order chain, and they plan to open at least 30 new restaurants together. Lyons already sells daily a million cups of tea brewed with leaves from its 1,700-acre plantation in Malawi, but it is aware that coffee is becoming more popular among the English. To get in on that market, it recently formed a new company with Manhattan's Chock Full O' Nuts Corp. to sell instant coffee in both Britain and Europe...
...massive alcoholic insult to the brain." The answer is no. Twelve years after his death, even people who think poetry is what appears on greeting cards have heard the legend that the wild Welsh wonderboy was the greatest lush, lecher, and lyric poet produced in this century by the English-speaking world...