Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partly because of its advantageous geographical location, partly because progress has somehow never stifled the quality of its raw frontier-town spirit. It held its first major convention just 100 years ago, when its streets were still being laid out. The convention hall was a hastily built two-story frame building, the famed Wigwam, where delegates to the Republican National Convention, after brawling with each other in the streets, nominated Abe Lincoln for the presidency...
...only because it again displayed the Dallas Opera to be one of the most enterprising in the country (despite its short, three-week season) or because the production of the all but forgotten Handel work showed a nice Texas feeling for musical antiques. Above all, the evening served to frame the long-awaited U.S. debut of Australian-born Soprano Joan Sutherland, one of opera's fastest-rising new stars...
...shoot, after all, he sold it to Malle, who explains: "What encouraged me the most was that everybody advised me against it." His solution: rendering the novelist's gush of gutter talk through Sennett-like changes of pace, face and place-with virtually a sight-gag per frame. The result: a remarkably faithful translation of the book that the Paris Express summed up as "90 minutes of cinematographic paroxysm...
...moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form of psychotherapy for a selfconscious, shame-ridden society, a technique of undoing the strings which tied it into knots...
...last night at the Loeb Drama Center as the resident genie uncorked another version of the three-in-one main stage. Some eve perhaps we shall see the third face, but for now the proscenium of Sullivan has replaced the open stage of Shakespeare. And a smashing good picture-frame stage--handsome, good sight-lines, all attention focused on stage--has come from the drawing boards of Messrs. Izenour and Stubbins...