Word: frisson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ditties. In the case of Shakespeare, Levine cleverly demonstrates how well people knew the Bard's works by providing examples of the careful, complex parodies of Shakespeare's plays that were performed in the mid-19th century. The jokes evidence a public familiarity with Shakespeare that would send a frisson of joy through E.D. Hirsh and his many culturally literate disciples...
...Strouse has not had a hit since Annie (1977). Marvin Hamlisch's A Chorus Line is still strutting its stuff, but the show opened in 1975. Jerry Herman's 1983 cross- dressed love story La Cage aux Folles packed in the tourists, but its appeal came more from the frisson of seeing men in black lace and garter belts than from any of its songs...
...famous Hitchcock twist endings sometimes fall flat in 1985. But when they ) work, they leave the viewer with a unique frisson: a grin accompanied by a sinking feeling in the stomach. In the best of the season's segments to date, Season Hubley played a convicted murderer who attempts a prison escape by hiding in a coffin about to be buried. Director Thomas Carter toyed masterfully with the audience's emotions, turning the protagonist from tearful victim to scheming bitch and back again in seconds. The half-hour story moved like a rifle shot (the inferior original was a full...
...faithful to Sendak's vision. Actors inside the costumes manipulate the mouths and arms by means of levers, while technicians in the audience control the movements of the eyes and noses. (The singers who provide the voices of the creatures are miked offstage.) Even jaded adults get a joyful frisson when Moishe, Tzippy, Bruno, Bernard and Emil come bouncing onstage, rolling their terrible eyes and gnashing their terrible teeth. Constructed by Britons Paul and Gill Fowler for the world premiere of the opera at Glyndebourne last year, they were refined and improved for the American production. Brought to life...
...first season), each of the Stories promises a distinctive style. Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows are wistful parables about death as creative transcendence. Each offers a unique frisson, to be relived on Monday morning at the playground or around the water cooler...