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...them is a bit different. You see, he's kinda psychotic. He has a five o'clock shadow, the haunted eyes of the posessed. In the subtle idiom of Stephen King, that's called foreshadowing. That guy's the werewolf...
...originated as a double-record album. That version, by French authors, was staged at the 4,500-seat Palais des Sports in Paris in 1980. For the R.S.C., Nunn, Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and other writers radically refashioned the text. The result is less French than English in tone and idiom, but that seems apt: Hugo's socialistic portraits of the downtrodden but unconquerable poor, and of the implacable forces of law that try to suppress them on behalf of men of property, could have echoed forth from British history as easily as French...
Glass's style was evolving beyond the severe tenets of minimalism; the extreme sparseness of his idiom was giving way to a new melodic sensuousness. The pounding, rock-influenced sound was still there, but hints of traditional harmony had begun to creep in. "I just couldn't throw out my Western music and education entirely," he explains. Today he no longer considers his music minimalist, although the label has stuck...
...slowly, reading straight from a prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit, he said Chrysler's admittedly successful mini-van is "the hottest new product . . . in your lifetimes." Says Douglas Fraser: "I'm a hip shooter...
...trace of realism. Believing that all Westerners are too close to Shakespeare to really see him, Mnouchkine borrows from the traditions of the Orient to seek the dramatic core of his plays. French, from her own translation, is the language coming from her actors' mouths, but the dramatic idiom in the three productions she brought to Los Angeles is Asian: Japanese for Richard II, Indian for Twelfth Night and a mixture of both for Henry IV, Part I. The actors either paint their faces white or hide them with masks; they wear Oriental dress and usually run rather than...