Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then the growth explosions began. They're still going on. No other city in history so typifies the delusions, the momentum, the pace and direction of its time. Some residents feel its heartbeat and would never live elsewhere. Like Joyce and his Dublin they commune inextricably. Others (more like Kafka and his Prague) live perpetually estranged and threatened by their city. But almost no one is indifferent to New York...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF strays far from Broadway to record the gentle joys and occasional sorrows of a Jewish community in a Russian town in 1905. In his finest performance to date, Zero Mostel gives this musical an unfaltering heartbeat...
...with each new performance. He can dance like a bear, sing like a frog and outstare an owl. A rhinoceros cannot readily distinguish Mostel from a rhinoceros. What links all of Mostel's roles is his gift for reaching the heart of a character and sympathetically synchronizing every heartbeat in the house with his. This gift is greatly evident in Fiddler on the Roof, a pleasantly nostalgic musical of Jewish community life in a tiny Russian village just prior to the abortive 1905 revolution. But for Zero, Fiddler's heartbeat would be considerably fainter...
...Past and passé do-goodies such as Eleanor, Chester and Soapy pale before the chubby-cheeked dynamo that is Horatio. Mr. and Mrs. Citizen must be taught in no uncertain terms that this Fabian gab-bag, one uncertain heartbeat from the White House, is the farthest out since F.D.R. tabbed Henry Wallace...
...which can never be emptied, this practice is impossible.) And preemies enjoy an electronic monitoring system which, the Hopkins believes, is the first of its kind in the world. Under each armpit of the preemie an electrode is taped. One records the baby's temperature, the other its heartbeat. Both signals are transmitted to a central nursing station and can be wired to sound an alarm if either measurement gets out of line...