Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epic undertaking, Béjart amassed more than 200 musicians and singers on the circular stage with 80 dancers from 24 nations, ranging from Japan to Jamaica. They performed in bare feet and ballet slippers, melding classical, folk, modern, African and religious dance into a ritualistic tribute to the brotherhood...
...perhaps at his most turgid and absurd in the long, confused eulogy of Jean Genet's scabrous Our Lady of the Flowers; Sartre described the book as an epic of masturbation, and Genet described Sartre in some of his favorite four-letter words. But Sartre has lately found a fresher vein; in his autobiographical The Words (TIME, Oct. 9) he reminisces simply and compellingly about his unhappy childhood, from which he eventually escaped into literature as others escape into religion, business, or the Foreign Legion...
HELLO LOUIS! (Epic). Cornetist Bobby Hackett, freed from the treacly bondage of those Jackie Gleason albums of a few years back, pays tribute to Satchmo the composer. Louis Armstrong's compositions have always been overshadowed by his virtuoso performances of other people's work, though he has written several hundred pieces, among the better known being Gate Mouth Blues, Brother Bill and Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Hackett proves to have a real feeling for the Armstrong style, and his cornet solos, backed by authentic-sounding tuba, saxophone, banjo, trombone, piano and drums, are incisive and bouncy...
...Japanese classic Rashomon. At worst, it is a clear case of Occidental death. In remaking Director Akira Kurosawa's 1952 Oscar winner, the producers have added a bumper crop of cactus, presumably hoping to repeat the success of The Magnificent Seven, a western based on Kurosawa's epic tale of the samurai. Assigned to this prickly task are Star Paul Newman, Director Martin Ritt and Photographer James Wong Howe, all covered with pay dirt from their triumphant collaboration in Hud. The result this time is a slick, shallow olio of rape, murder and violence...
...Epic Title. London's Aldwych theater, which is operated by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company of Stratford, is making a name for itself as an outlet for new and experimental plays in repertory. Later this month, they have an item called Victor, or The Children Take Over, by French Playwright Roger Vitrac. The plot calls for a woman to make flatus with noisy regularity, which is accomplished with a backstage tuba...