Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play runs a gamut of themes from murder to lust to alienation and old age. Eve succumbs to the serpent's temptation in the Garden and bequeaths petty, disillusioned existences to her 20th-century daughters. Cain's allegedly unwitting murder of his brother is juxtaposed against the assassination of a president, presumably Kennedy, and of Martin Luther King, Jr., while the American public, embodied in a hysterical chorus, shirks all blame for the killings. Society is rather tritely compared to a flock of lemmings, and four women bewail the discontinuity of modern life as they clench and splay their fingers...
...years ago in Philadelphia--but it has arrived in Boston with its vigor and energy unsapped. The effect of the show is cumulative; by the end of the two hours, the Charles Playhouse's exhuberant cast has successfully bounced, exhorted and cajoled its audience through the entire gamut of black experience...
Repertory Gamut. For the past 16 years, however, he has managed to confine his energies to the Dallas Theater Center, where he has served as stagehand, ticket taker, director and actor, running the repertory gamut from Julius Caesar-he played Brutus-to A Streetcar Named Desire...
...virtuoso political performance if only for its stamina. "Cultural expression must be guaranteed absolutely," he told a high school teacher who asked him how the party felt about intellectual freedom. Answering questions from an actress, a magistrate, several soldiers, and representatives of minor political parties, Berlinguer ran the gamut of the Communists' positions. Repeatedly, he stressed their new proposal for a government of "broad democratic unity...
...audience's reaction to the speech ran the gamut from "terribly exciting" to "dry as hell," but most of the alumni said they were intrigued by Wilson's theoretical approach...