Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SYRACUSE, Famous Artist Playhouse: Durward Kirby plays a perplexed father in The Impossible Years, a product of the past Broadway season...
MAME was hilarious in a book, ebullient in a play, a delight on the screen, and in this musical she can sing and dance too. Angela Lansbury plays the most famous aunt since Jemima, with a winning mixture of the maternal...
FALLA: LOVE, THE MAGICIAN AND THE THREE-CORNERED HAT (Deutsche Grammophon). Loren Maazel, conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, streaks through two famous ballet suites with much of Falla's own theatrical genius, and Grace Bumbry, as a girl chased by the ghost of her dead gypsy lover, gives an exuberant, shoes-off performance in her brief role. All hands seem to have caught the spell of old Andalusia...
Watson's weakest moment is unfortunately his most famous one, when he addresses the Roman plebs at Caesar's funeral in the Forum. Here he lacks sincerity and sonority. The crowd, however, handles itself rather effectively in this scene, emitting a susurrus of suspense before Brutus' harangue, and erupting into noisy iterations of a metrically unison spondee-anapest pattern before Mark Antony...
...orators, this Antony afflicts us with an ugly voice and a diction rife with malformed vowels. And when, during a pause, a citizen says, "Now mark him, he begins again to speak," Joyce has not given the slightest hint of intending to resume. This speech--one of the most famous in all literature--is simply a disaster. When it was concluded at the opening performance, one outraged man in the audience let out with a resounding boo; and only critical decorum prevented its being joined by at least one more. Joyce--and anyone else essaying the role--should study...