Word: facially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenes--at the very beginning, when she forces Face and Subtle to stop quarelling, and when she plays the role of fine ladies--like the potty sister of a baron or the Queen of Fairyland. Subtle (Philip Kilbourne) is craggy and lanky with high cheekbones and his facial mugging supplies an ironic commentary over and above the script. Face is short, dark, and particularly good when affecting the part of a shuffling menial...
...York. Stern businessmen too pressed to shake hands, matrons walking their pets, friends out for a breath of air, all parade by. The theme grows more intriguing as walkers begin to bump into each other, scramble to avoid a collision, or walk over each other. In this dance, the facial expressions add such personality to the gaits themselves that the piece borders on mime...
...their time in school studying and part of their school time doing work. Socialism in Cuba aims to integrate theory and practice." As she stopped to sip her fruit juice, I asked her the rationale behind Cuba's work-study program. Ilda hesitated with a half smile and curious facial expression as if she thought the reasoning was obvious. "Work-study puts more producers in the economy. Under socialism," she emphasized, "everybody works. Second of all, this type of program helps negate the intellectual tendency of separating thought from practice and negates the intellectual's aversion to physical work...
...wrinkled, his eyelids droop. But, said a young protocol officer wearily, "we young men cannot keep up with him." The King stood to receive me in my turn, shook hands, spoke a few words of welcome and motioned me to a seat. He never smiled, though, or changed his facial expression. His answers to my questions...
...major characters, the ones for whom Shaw wrote, are Mark Mosca and Bonnie Brewster here and they both live up to every expectation of Shaw's. The roles demand a lot of nuance from their actors--facial expressions and the slightest gestures must be just right--and both are admirable. Mosca has a certain half-smile that he can turn into a scowl as easily as a self-congratulatory smirk. Although his rages somehow seem more passionate than Napoleon probably was, the whole play seems to support that kind of style. After all, Shaw needed to build a rapport between...