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...Papageno asleep, late for his cue, and darts into the audience to record the listeners' rapt faces. Sven Nykvist's extraordinary lighting and framing pours new layers of fantasy onto the story--hands appear out of nowhere, portraits come alive, and airy scenes like Renaissance paintings dissolve into somber, feverish settings lit by stark, bluish fires. The film keeps the quality of a live performance because it's set in an eighteenth-century opera house rather than in a studio. The performance conditions of Mozart's day are faithfully reproduced, down to the wing-and-shutter sets and even...
Alerted to the possibility of sabotage, the Nazis place a Luftwaffe colonel (George C. Scott) aboard as a security man. Being a reasonably alert fellow, he cannot fail to observe that there is a feverish, guilty quality about a rigger named Boerth (William Atherton). The screenplay's attempts to generate a little mystery by introducing red herrings from the passenger manifest are laughable, since such worthies as Anne Bancroft, Gig Young and Burgess Meredith constitute nothing more than the customary ship of fools. It is hard to understand why Scott wastes time on them. As the only good...
Skip Mendler's portrayal of Allan Felix in the Winthrop House Dramatics Society production of Play It Again, Sam lacks the essential element of restraint. Mendler is not lacking in energy. But his performance forces us to believe that Allan is constantly operating at a feverish pitch of anxiety through the several weeks of action that elapse in the play. As portrayed by Mendler, Allan has very little interest for us; watching him quickly becomes monotonous...
...their final practice on Soldier's Field yesterday, the Crimson's psyche approached feverish pitch. Clad in cleats and double-knits, they enthusiastically scanned play formations freshly xeroxed by Professor Graham Allison, author...
Yale is of two minds about itself. Some people, with persuasive sincerity, maintain that Yale is on the whole normal--different from other prestigious Ivy League colleges in degree but not in kind. Others, with no less vigor, hold that Yale has a special, feverish intensity that sets it apart from its brethren--and Yale's intensity, some say, shades over into sickness and depravity...